Who ever thought of the mechanics behind moving a 40-ton, 20,000-bushel capacity elevator along country roads, and across a narrow bridge over a dam? That’s what happened in 1949 when a grain elevator ...

Ardent Mills will soon shut down a facility in Mankato that employs 44 people. Operations will wind down over the next eight weeks and end in mid-January, said Kelley Kaiser, a spokeswoman for the ...

Good Thunder’s plan to use a grain storage facility as a beacon to draw art lovers to town was decades ahead of the recent idea for Blue Earth County’s largest community. A large mural looms above the ...

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 ...