Work is progressing in finalizing a plan to remove the Rapidan Dam, which failed during historic flooding nearly two years ...

The Blue Earth County Board held a work session Tuesday to discuss updates surrounding the dam removal project. The project, led by County Engineer Ryan Thilges and Barr Project Manager Joe Hjerpe, is ...

MANKATO – The Rapidan Dam Store, a restaurant southwest of Mankato that was demolished after flooding in June overran the nearby dam, has a new home. Generations of regulars gathered in downtown ...

Rapidan Dam’s partial failure sent an estimated 11.6 million cubic yards of sediment downstream. Experts are worried about its ecological impacts and say it could take years to fully understand them.

RAPIDAN TOWNSHIP, Minn. — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday got a first-hand look at the site of disastrous flooding in southern Minnesota, which partially damaged a dam and led to the destruction of ...

RAPIDAN, Minn. (AP) — County officials bought and demolished a Minnesota family store that was precariously perched beside a cliff near a flood-damaged dam, officials said Friday. Blue Earth County ...

MANKATO, Minn. (FOX 9) - The Rapidan Dam in south central Minnesota suffered a partial failure on Monday, June 24. The white house on the edge of the Blue Earth River has since fallen into the river.

As we all watched news video of Rapidan Dam being rendered inoperable by recent torrential rains, we were left wondering: “So what should we do now?” Much of the news has focused on the spectacle of ...

RAPIDAN TOWNSHIP, Minn. — A southern Minnesota dam and nearby bridge that almost collapsed earlier this summer after a bout of heavy rain and prompted a federal emergency declaration will be torn down ...

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 ...

Eric Henderson consoles his wife Louise Henderson after she looked at the site where the Dam Store and a family friend's house used to be near Rapidan Dam on Saturday. "I watched one of my best ...