WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Interstate 35W bridge collapsed when a too-thin gusset plate ripped along a line of rivets, initiating a collapse that killed 13 people and injured 145. That conclusion from a ...

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 ...

National Transportation Safety Board investigators said on Nov. 13 that the 2007 Minneapolis bridge collapse that killed 13 people and injured 145 others started when gusset plates on the upper side ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board looking for the cause of the Minneapolis bridge collapse are focusing attention on a corroded gusset plate in the section of ...

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 ...

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

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 145, the National ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Aug. 1, 2017 will mark 10 years since the I-35W bridge collapse. 13 people died and another 145 were injured. The Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) is commemorating the date by ...

ROCHESTER, Minn.—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 ...

In its ongoing investigation of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis that collapsed Aug. 1 over the Mississippi River, killing at least five people, the National Transportation Safety Board's 19-member ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- One of the key elements that caused the Interstate 35W Bridge to collapse is now on display in Minneapolis. It comes less than a week before the 10-year anniversary of when the ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board looking for the cause of the Minneapolis bridge collapse are focusing attention on a corroded gusset plate in the section of ...