Engineers are scrutinizing a St. Peter bridge that’s one of seven truss bridges around the state that has the type of gusset plates fingered in a preliminary report as a possible cause of the I-35W ...

Minnesota Department of Transportation inspectors failed to notice the severity of corroded gusset plates on the Interstate Bridge in two inspections during the past 14 months because the plates weren ...

Concerns shut down DeSoto Bridge. With the Interstate 35W bridge collapse of August 1 fresh on their minds, Minnesota Dept. of Transportation officials shut down a 51-year old continuous steel deck ...

The Minnesota Department of Transportation has had visual evidence of damaged gusset plates on the 35W bridge for more than four years, according to a Star Tribune report. It appears that URS Corp., ...

The National Transportation Safety Board on Friday, Nov. 14, announced that it has determined that the probable cause of the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in ...

With Winona’s Highway 43 bridge scheduled to reopen to cars this weekend, local transportation officials are urging that the bridge’s replacement be completed sooner than scheduled. "We’ve requested ...

WINONA — The Minnesota Department of Transportation says work should begin by Thursday on repairing about 15 gusset plates on the Highway 43 bridge over the Mississippi River at Winona. MnDOT says an ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Two crucial gusset plate connections on the Interstate 35W bridge were visibly deformed at least four years before the structure collapsed, according to photographs newly released by the ...

CINCINNATI (AP) -- The Ohio Department of Transportation believes its ahead of the curve in bridge inspections and carefully examines the steel plates that connect bridge beams. The National ...