Lying on both banks of the Mississippi River, Minneapolis has a plethora of bridges that carry a couple of hundreds of thousands of vehicles every day. One of them was the notorious I-35W Mississippi ...

Mark Mirsch traveled the I-35W bridge nearly every day to his job in Blaine. Never once did he expect to be working in the waters alongside it. Never once did he imagine seeing the 40-year-old ...

By Nick Hanson U of M News Wire  Most people watched TV, read the paper, or listened to the radio to get a sense of what it was like when the Minneapolis Interstate-35W bridge plummeted into the ...

For years, the Mississippi River was a roadblock for travelers – either to be forded or boated across. But, on Jan. 23, 1855, the first bridge across the river opened.