A Philipsburg contractor submitted the low bid Wednesday for the replacement of the Big Hole River diversion dam and intake structure. Mungas Co. Inc. was the low estimate with its $3,001,888 bid ...

Jim Hruska, Dam Store co-owner, points to the mounds of silt revealed after the Blue Earth River directly behind the Rapidan Dam was lowered between 10 feet and 12 feet Thursday.

Over several days, what had been a low-key fishing hole in a far-flung corner of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula disappeared. After heavy rains last June, the wooden stoplogs on a dam that held back ...