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.

The first explosives charge at the bridge rang out like a starting gun, followed by the ratatat drumbeat of smaller ...

Contractors blew up the remnants of a damaged southern Minnesota bridge that nearly collapsed during heavy rains last summer. Blue Earth County officials say explosives were used to destroy the ...

MINNESOTA — "Dangerously cold wind chills" are expected to hit Minnesota this weekend. The National Weather Service has issued a cold weather advisory starting 9 p.m. Saturday and lasting ...

In addition to the dramatic damage to the dam site, the June flooding undermined the County Road 9 bridge across the Blue Earth River just upstream from the dam, and the board last week approved ...

Video shows synchronized blasts followed by eruptions of billowing black and beige clouds as huge sections of the bridge crashed into the frozen Blue Earth River below. County commissioners last ...