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 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 ...

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. — 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 ...

MANKATO — The Blue Earth County Board will discuss Tuesday escalating costs of replacing the County Road 9 Rapidan bridge that was damaged in 2024 floods and was removed earlier this year. According ...

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 dam west of Mankato that failed during major flooding in June will be removed, ending a years-long local debate over what to do with the aging infrastructure. The Blue Earth County Board voted ...

In his first public visit to Mankato after his run for vice president, Gov. Tim Walz braved the afternoon cold on Thursday to return to Rapidan Dam and outline his 2025 bonding proposals. His $887 ...

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 ...

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 ...