Emergency crews work to rescue survivors after the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River collapsed in Minneapolis during evening rush hour on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007.

August 1, 2007—rush hour turned to chaos as the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis collapsed into the Mississippi River, exposing major cracks in America’s infrastructure.

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- Steel plates connecting beams in the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis were too thin by half and fractured, "the critical factor" in the collapse that killed 13 people and injured ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The new Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis is set to open sometime next week. The bridge replaces the I-35W span that collapsed Aug. 1, 2007, killing 13.

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 1 -- An eight-lane highway bridge clogged with rush-hour traffic buckled and collapsed into the Mississippi River in central Minneapolis on Wednesday evening, pitching numerous ...

The eight-lane I-35W Bridge, the main north-south route through Minneapolis, was under repair at the time of the collapse. The bridge, which was built in 1967, collapsed in three sections.

At least four people died when the entire span of the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis collapsed during the evening rush hour Wednesday, Aug.1, dumping numerous ...

The bridge repair project is one of four MnDOT will undertake in northeast. Starting Tuesday, the westbound lanes of the Broadway Street bridge over I-35W will be closed until late June.