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

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

Contractors blew up the remnants of a damaged southern Minnesota bridge that nearly collapsed during heavy rains last summer ...

Residents had used the roughly 40-year-old bridge to commute across the dam from rural patches of land ... forcing the removal of a beloved store. Mankato is about 80 miles south of Minneapolis.

Multiple explosions demolished the County Road 9 bridge near the Rapidan Dam after last summer's breach that led to the dam's ...

MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC/Gray News ... Heavy rain last June caused severe flooding that breached the Rapidan Dam on the western ...

MANKATO, Minnesota: This week, workers used explosives to destroy the remains of a damaged bridge in southern Minnesota. The ...

MANKATO, Minn. (AP ... 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.