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

Gov. Tim Walz pitches his bonding proposal at the Rapidan Dam near Mankato on Thursday. (JP Lawrence/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

His $887 million pitch includes $10 million for dam recovery efforts after last summer’s catastrophic flooding ...

The west bank of the river flooded over the dam, with erosion pulling in a nearby house and destroying the Rapidan Dam Store ... also included a visit to the MN Ag Expo, a spokeswoman said.

A thunderous boom and a large billow of dark-gray smoke rising in the air marked the quick demise of steel beams that had held up the Blue Earth County 9 bridge just upstream from the Rapidan Dam.

Come out to the Rapidan Dam County Park on Saturday, June 12th to paddle the Blue Earth River and join fellow river advocates as the Minnesota River ...

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 ...

Walz’s visit to Mankato, his former home as a teacher and congressman, will include a visit to the MN ... river flooded over the dam, with erosion pulling in a nearby house and destroying the ...