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

Watershed managers in northwest Minnesota say they're concerned and frustrated with the level of funding Gov. Tim Walz has recommended for flood-control projects in his proposed infrastructure bill.

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

A subcontractor of the company hired to remove the County Road 9 bridge over the Blue Earth River used explosive charges to ...

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

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

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

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

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.

Faced with the task of replacing a flood-damaged bridge, and removing a breached dam, county officials face the prospect of ...

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) ...

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 preliminary ...