MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Rushing waters from the Blue Earth River have already left a trail of debris and destruction on the edges of a southern Minnesota dam that partially failed last week, but officials acknowledged Tuesday the structure most in danger may be the bridge that looms nearby. The County Road 9 Bridge is at […]
RAPIDAN, Minn. – County and state officials gathered at the Rapidan Dam Tuesday to assess a still-closed bridge next to the Rapidan Dam that may be at risk of “partial or full failure” as a result of the dam’s worst flooding in nearly 60 years. The assessment came during a visit Tuesday by Gov. Tim […]
A 20-year-old Meridian woman died Saturday in a motorcycle crash near Lucky Peak Dam in Ada County. The woman was riding a 2024 Yamaha YZFR3 in the left lane on Idaho 21 at milepost 9.5 when she failed to make a curve and overturned the motorcycle, according to a news release Sunday from Idaho State […]
LAKE LIVINGSTON, Texas (KETK) – The Trinity River Authority declared a “potential failure watch” for the Lake Livingston Dam spillway on Thursday. Powell Street in Lufkin closed forever The dam’s spillway was reportedly “adversely impacted” by the heavy rainfall that recently hit the area and caused flooding across Trinity and Polk counties. Officials said that […]
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 bought the Rapidan Dam Store and then removed the structure to lessen the downstream impact if it tumbled into the Blue Earth River, the county […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A house that was teetering on the edge of an eroding riverbank near a Minnesota dam collapsed into the river in the latest jarring example of extreme weather gripping the upper Midwest. Video shows most of the house owned by the Barnes family falling into the flood-swollen Big Earth River […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The visuals were stunning: Water from the Blue Earth River surged around a southern Minnesota dam, carrying a shipping container with it as it toppled utility poles, wrecked a substation and washed away part of a riverbank. A home teetered on the edge of an eroded slope as floodwaters rushed underneath. Earlier […]
The Rapidan Dam southwest of Mankato should withstand recent historic flooding on the Blue Earth River, but the near-miss underscores the risk for an old and vulnerable structure that county officials have wrestled with removing for years. “This brings that conversation of what are we going to do with the dam, a 114-year piece of […]
Severe flooding in the Midwest has left at least two people dead as heavy rains caused a bridge to collapse, a historic dam to be on the brink of failure and an entire town to be cut off by floodwaters. More than 3 million people from Nebraska to Minnesota have been affected by the days-long […]
MANKATO, Minn. – A Minnesota river that flowed over its banks after recent heavy rain pulled a building into the rushing water Monday and sent it over a dam. Randy Hanson joined other shocked spectators at the Rapidan Dam to witness a sight he had never seen before. The Blue Earth River rushed around and […]
OSHKOSH, Wis. (WFRV) – On Saturday evening, a new Miss Wisconsin was crowned in Oshkosh, qualifying for the Miss America competition in 2025. 22-year-old Mandi Genord of Beaver Dam swept the title among 30 others from across Wisconsin. ‘This is the absolute best job in sports’: Ed Policy named next Packers Chairman, President & CEO […]
OSHKOSH – Mandi Genord will compete for the title of Miss America 2025. The 22-year-old Beaver Dam woman claimed the Miss Wisconsin 2024 crown Saturday evening at Alberta Kimball Auditorium at Oshkosh West High School from a field of 30 contestants from across the state. Genord served as Miss Wisconsin’s Teen in 2018. She is […]