BISMARCK -- Local leaders in north-central North Dakota have undertaken an ambitious project to protect communities across the Mouse River Basin, including Minot.
BISMARCK -- As the massive diversion intended to protect Fargo-Moorhead from Red River flooding inches toward construction, numerous communities across the region have taken measures to stave off flood waters.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- In the dry season, the diversion channel that protects this city of 700,000 from catastrophic flooding looks like a long, shallow ditch with grassy banks.
FARGO - A revised F-M diversion significantly reduces impacts in rural Minnesota but increases impacts in rural Cass County while allowing more water to flow through Fargo-Moorhead during severe floods estimated to occur once every 20 years.
FARGO - One of the most critical and important elements of a flood fight is effectively communicating predictions.John Wheeler, chief meteorologist at WDAY TV since 1989, has experienced this first-hand through numerous flood seasons in the Red R...
For Fargo-Moorhead residents, the relationship with the Red River is personal.And all too frequently, the relationship is strained when we are forced to hold back the Red when it swells beyond its banks, threatening our homes, jobs and way of lif...
GRAND FORKS, N.D.-Mark Ewens was driving back from Thief River Falls, Minn., on New Year's Eve 1996 when he stopped to measure the snow depth in the middle of a field.What he discovered was an early sign of what was to come a few months later: re...
FARGO - As flood waters approached Rose Creek Golf Course in the spring of 2011, city workers were unrolling what was, in effect, a very long water balloon across a low-lying area near the creek.Nathan Boerboom, a city engineer overseeing flood c...
FARGO - When it comes to natural disasters, especially flooding in the Fargo-Moorhead area, elected officials find themselves standing shoulder to shoulder with the people who they serve.They share the same struggles in saving their homes and bus...
ST. PAUL - A federal judge says he will decide whether to temporarily stop the Fargo-Moorhead flood diversion project within 30 days.After a three-hour hearing Tuesday, July 18, Chief Minnesota federal Judge John R. Tunheim announced his month de...
ST, PAUL - Opponents of the Fargo-Moorhead flood diversion are appearing in federal court here Tuesday, July 18, to ask a judge to stop all work on the $2.2 billion project, particularly construction of a controversial dam that would span the Red...
MOORHEAD - City and Clay County leaders are seeking Gov. Mark Dayton's help to reopen lines of communication between the Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Authority and state regulators."It seems like now, more than ever, is the time we need you, (Departm...
FARGO - Though on opposite sides of a lawsuit, Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Authority officials said they felt they were tantalizingly close to a compromise with Minnesota regulators recently until the state abruptly cut off communications."I would s...
