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 ...

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 ...

In the aftermath of the I-35W river bridge collapse in Minneapolis, the Minnesota Department of Transportation said all northbound I-35W traffic must exit at eastbound I-94.

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.