The Blue Earth River begins in northern Iowa and meets with the river's west branch in Faribault County in southern Minnesota, according to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. From there ...

The Rapidan Dam in south central Minnesota suffered a partial failure due to flooding on the Blue Earth River in June of 2024 ...

This combination of satellite images provided by MaxarTechnologies shows views of the Rapidan Dam on Minnesota’s Blue Earth River, south of Mankato, on Sept. 6, 2011, top, and bottom on June 26 ...

For 112 years the massive Rapidan Dam stood strong on the Blue Earth River. Then on June 24, with near record-level river ...

The three men who were with her were not named by the Blue Earth County Sheriff’s Department. “He was in shock,” said Hruska, who has gotten to know the river well since he purchased the ...

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 ...

Water levels on the Minnesota, Mississippi and Missouri rivers saw their highest levels in at least a decade. Flooding on the Blue Earth River near Mankato caused an abutment of the Rapidan Dam to ...