A few miles outside Mankato, Minnesota, painted blue and white with a vintage Pepsi sign hanging out front, the Rapidan Dam store stood for more than 50 years. That’s how long Jenny Barnes and her ...

The second-worst flood in Minnesota's Rapidan Dam's 114-year history didn't destroy it, but it put it "in imminent failure condition." Now, a nearby bridge is at risk of collapsing. Nearly two dozen ...

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The Blue Earth River is very different from what it has been for more than a century. In late June last year the Rapidan Dam suffered a catastrophic failure when floodwaters tore around the west end ...

MANKATO, Minn — A beloved southern Minnesota store demolished in June due to flooding has reopened in a new location in downtown Mankato. The Rapidan Dam Store's new home is the old Wagon Wheel Cafe ...

MANKATO, Minn. — A beloved family store lost during the flooding in southern Minnesota this summer is reopening in Mankato. The Rapidan Dam Store was bought in June by Blue Earth County officials. It ...

RAPIDAN, Minn. (KEYC) - Nearly six months after historic flooding caused a partial failure of the Rapidan Dam and caused ...

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 for ...

The Rapidan Dam Store, a restaurant southwest of Mankato that was demolished after flooding in June overran the nearby dam, may soon have a new home. The Hruska family that has owned the store since ...

MANKATO, Minn. — A historic store lost when flooding caused part of a southern Minnesota dam to fail will soon have a new home. Monday night, the Mankato City Council signed off on moving the Dam ...

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 the ...

RAPIDAN, MINN. – Imagine a six-story building, perched precariously, inching its way across a narrow bridge, a churning river below. In 1949, that’s exactly what happened at the Rapidan Dam near ...