Zach Hilgendorf, assistant professor of geography and anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, said he first found himself at the Rapidan Dam in Mankato, Minn., when he was completing ...

At Rapidan Dam, the people around Barnes saw the disaster unfolding, too. Jeremy Jordan, who lives nearby, says he used to work on the dam’s power plant as a fill-in employee.

Among the areas that were damaged in Blue Earth County was the area around the Rapidan Dam, which suffered a partial failure on June 24, 2024, resulting in a house along the Blue Earth River, near ...

After a recent public appearance, 5 INVESTIGATES pressed the governor about what happened to the Rapidan Dam money he called for in the state budget. “I said the bonding bill is always a tough one.

Video shows the aftermath of the Rapidan Dam failure after torrential rains hit near Mankato, Minn. in June, 2024.

The area near the 115-year-old Rapidan Dam, once lauded as one of southern Minnesota’s prettiest stretches of river, drew kayakers and canoers who capped their trips with pie at his family’s ...

The 11-foot high, 12-foot-deep and 200-foot wide concrete Rapidan Mill dam blocks migrating shad, river herring, striped bass, eels and other fish from native spawning and rearing grounds upstream.

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 Dam Store reopened at its new, temporary location in Mankato Monday after the original building collapsed during flooding earlier this summer. And the National Park Service ranger who ...

RAPIDAN — 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 ...

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 ...