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    November 13, 2017
    Moorhead Mayor Del Rae Williams, from right, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton listen to Lance Yohe of the Red River Basin Commission during a meeting of The Fargo-Moorhead Area Flood Diversion Task Force on Monday, Nov. 13, 2017, at the Fargodome. Michael Vosburg / Forum News Service
    F-M flood diversion task force options look a lot like current plan
    FARGO — From what would have been a list of more than 70 alternatives to the Fargo-Moorhead flood diversion, a task force seeking to reconcile...
    newsNovember 13, 2017 - 8:19pm
    November 4, 2017
    Renville, Redwood counties receive state disaster relief for October floods
    ST. PAUL — Renville County will receive $109,350 in state disaster assistance to help recover from an October thunderstorm storm that caused...
    newsNovember 4, 2017 - 11:31am
    October 5, 2017
    An RV leads several other motor vehicles up a hill on Minnesota Highway 210 between a new retaining wall and a stabilized hillside in Jay Cooke State Park on Wednesday, Oct. 4, shortly after the state reopened the section of highway. Steve Kuchera / Forum News Serviceplay button
    Highway 210 through Jay Cooke State Park reopens
    DULUTH, Minn. — Dave Jones made the trek east from tiny Jacobson in Aitkin County to ride Minnesota Highway 210 on Wednesday, Oct. 4, as...
    newsOctober 5, 2017 - 6:08am
    August 29, 2017
    A man stands on a roof as flood waters cover the Meyerland neighborhood of Houston, Aug. 27, 2017. Residents who fled Hurricane Harvey are living in a haze of uncertainty, searching for answers from home as to what — and who — survived. (Alyssa Schukar/The New York Times)
    Where Harvey is hitting hardest, four out of five homeowners lack flood insurance
    The vast majority of homeowners in the area devastated by Hurricane Harvey lack flood insurance, leaving many who escaped the storm with little...
    newsAugust 29, 2017 - 2:31pm
    August 13, 2017
    Fighting drought and flood with soil health
    WASHINGTON D.C. — The Upper Midwest is in the grips of a historic drought, pretty close on the heels of several historic floods. Both extremes cause devastating, expensive problems for agriculture. But agronomist Andrea Basche thinks an answer to improving outcomes for droughts...
    newsAugust 13, 2017 - 4:51pm
    July 11, 2017
    T07.12.2016 -- Steve Kuchera -- kucheraFLOOD0713c7 -- Trout Brook flows through where it washed out Wisconsin Highway 13 near North York on Tuesday. Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com
    1 year later, Wisconsin communities rebuild after disastrous flood
    NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN — One year ago, floodwaters washed out roads, destroyed homes and claimed the lives of three people in Northwestern...
    newsJuly 11, 2017 - 9:41am
    June 18, 2017
    Sightseers visit and take pictures of a section of Vermillion Road that was destroyed by floods during the June 19, 2012 storm in Duluth. (Bob King / Forum News Service)
    Lessons from the 2012 flood: Five years later, is Northland better prepared for next natural disaster?
    DULUTH — Monday, June 19, marks the fifth anniversary of the 2012 flood that dumped 7.5 to 10 inches of rain on top of the Northland's...
    newsJune 18, 2017 - 8:09pm
    June 11, 2017
    Another coho salmon comes aboard Greg Massoglia's boat during a morning of trolling on Lake Superior near Saxon Harbor, Wis., on an early June morning. Sam Cook / Forum News Service
    Wisconsin angler prefers hooking salmon than prized Superior lake trout
    SAXON, Wis. — Greg Massoglia's gaze swept across Lake Superior on this June morning, and he liked what he saw. Not another boat in sight....
    sportsJune 11, 2017 - 7:15am
    Bill and Grace Hines own the Harbor Lights bar and restaurant at Saxon Harbor, near Saxon, Wis. The harbor was severely damaged by a July 11-12 flood last summer. Their business has suffered as a result, but plans call for the harbor to be repaired next year. Sam Cook / Forum News Service
    Harbor Lights owners carry on after 'surreal' flooding at Saxon Harbor
    SAXON, Wis. — For those who knew Saxon Harbor the way it once was, it's still difficult to see the harbor now. "It was almost like a death...
    newsJune 11, 2017 - 6:00am
    May 22, 2017
    Map courtesy Renville County
    Renville County closes two parks due to flooding
    OLIVIA — Renville County residents will find park closures because of flooding. Anderson Lake County Park in rural Franklin and Mack Lake...
    newsMay 22, 2017 - 6:28pm
    April 28, 2017
    Nicole Phillips, Kindness is Contagious columnist
    Phillips: Kindness fills the memory of flood survivor
    Twenty years ago this month, people along the Red River in Minnesota, North Dakota and southern Manitoba experienced the worst flood of the area...
    opinionApril 28, 2017 - 7:36am
    April 20, 2017
    Briana Sanchez / Tribune A water main break causes flooding at Fourth Street Southwest Thursday night in Willmar.
    Water main break floods Fourth Street in Willmar
    A water main break flooded Fourth Street Southwest in Willmar Thursday night. The area flooded was reportedly between Kandiyohi and Monongalia...
    newsApril 20, 2017 - 10:53pm
    April 19, 2017
    Blizzard Hannah, the fiercest of the eight blizzards in the winter of 1996-97, was the namesake of Hannah Vonasek, who was 2 years old at the time and the daughter of Herald design editor Janelle Vonasek. Hannah's doll, Elmo, also had a blizzard named after him in 1997. Eric Hylden / Forum News Service
    Flood of 1997 profile: Blizzard Hannah meets Blizzard Elmo, and they both survive
    EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. — Hannah Vonasek doesn't remember the Flood of 1997, but she definitely remembers the Blizzard Hannah that preceded...
    newsApril 19, 2017 - 2:03pm
    April 18, 2017
    A fire-bombing plane, usually used in forest fires, drops fire retardant on the downtown blaze. The electrical fire in one of the oldest office buildings in downtown Grand Forks , the Security Building, was reported at 4:15 p.m. and was still being fought twenty-two hours later. photo by Chuck Kimmerle/Grand Forks Herald
    ND House votes in remembrance of 1997 'devastation'
    BISMARCK — North Dakota legislators approved a concurrent resolution on Tuesday, April 18, that recognized the 20th anniversary of the...
    newsApril 18, 2017 - 5:44pm
    April 16, 2017
    Mark Bittner, director of engineering for city of Fargo, looks over the floodwall at Oak Grove lutheran School in north Fargo. (David Samson / Forum News Service)
    Without 1997 flood, would 2009 fight have failed? First big one's lessons are lasting legacy
    FARGO — Mark Bittner pointed to an area behind Oak Grove Lutheran School where an emergency levee had been erected two decades ago against...
    newsApril 16, 2017 - 6:00am
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