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

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

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.

State money may soon be on the way to help tear out the Rapidan Dam after it partially failed following severe flooding last summer. Blue Earth County officials have been working to secure funding ...

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 ...

The decking is stripped off the County Road 9 bridge that was damaged in flooding near the Rapidan Dam near Mankato. (JP ...

Construction of the Rapidan dam was finished in 1910 and ... But officials closed a park downstream of the dam that attracts hikers and fishermen. The reservoir upstream of the dam provides ...

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

Extreme erosion is apparent on the west bank of the Blue Earth River at the Rapidan Dam near Mankato on July 2. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

MANKATO — An engineering firm hired Tuesday to design the demise of the Rapidan ... and planning park and trail amenities in the area. After debating the future of the dam repeatedly in the ...

Gov. Tim Walz talks at a press conference near the defunct Rapidan Dam about a proposed bill that would help Minnesota infrastructure projects, such as repairing the highway that spans over the ...

MANKATO, Minn. — The bridge in Mankato that spans the Blue Earth River near the Rapidan Dam is starting to come down. Crews began demolition work Tuesday, months after extreme flooding pushed ...