The county said that explosive charges were used both to make that process quicker and to ensure the safety of workers, as it ...

Demolition efforts for the bridge near the failed Rapidan Dam are underway in Blue Earth County. On Wednesday, controlled ...

State money may soon be on the way to help tear out the Rapidan Dam after it partially failed ... reporters just feet away from a very active construction site. Right now, crews are racing against ...

A thunderous boom and a large billow of dark-gray smoke rising in the air marked the quick demise of steel beams that had ...

A bridge near the Rapidan Dam in Blue Earth County is gone after being demolished using explosives Wednesday. Crews ...

Tim Walz, center, and Blue Earth County Commissioner Kevin Paap the construction being done at Rapidan Dam and Highway 9. At the Rapidan event Blue Earth County Commissioner Kevin Paap said the ...

County commissioners last year voted to replace the bridge and remove the nearby Rapidan Dam, both of which were at risk of crumbling after last year's deluge. Residents had used the roughly 40 ...

A Twin Cities engineering firm hired to design the demise of the Rapidan Dam expects it to disappear by the end of 2028 — 118 years after the structure was completed southwest of Mankato, Minn.

The wide-ranging plan would allocate funding for the recovery of the Rapidan Dam collapse, the construction of a Minnesota State Patrol headquarters and over $200 million for repairs and ...

Water in the Blue Earth River flows around the the Rapidan Dam southwest of Mankato, Minn., on June 24 threatening the integrity of the dam, the County Road 9 Bridge as well as a house on the west ...

Engineers plan to start removal of the Rapidan Dam in 2027, after it failed during major flooding last year. The process of taking down the dam would continue through 2028, according to a ...