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    March 16, 2018
    This is a rendering of the inlet structure near Horace, N.D., looking downstream from the dam. Image credit: Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Authority.
    Diversion Authority board votes to submit new plan to Minnesota regulators
    FARGO – The Diversion Authority’s board members voted unanimously to accept all recommendations from a task force and will submit a new permit...
    news/government-and-politicsMarch 16, 2018 - 4:53pm
    January 5, 2018
    Weather Talk: A Red River flood in summer? It could happen
    The absence of heavy snow cover the past four seasons has helped people forget how flood-prone we are. After all, we fought serious spring floods...
    news/weatherJanuary 5, 2018 - 5:05am
    November 13, 2017
    Moorhead Mayor Del Rae Williams, from right, N.D. Gov. Doug Burgum and Minn. 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 Photo Editor
    F-M flood diversion task force options look a lot like current plan
    FARGO — From what would've been a list of more than 70 potential alternatives to the Fargo-Moorhead flood diversion, a task force seeking...
    newsNovember 13, 2017 - 8:14pm
    October 23, 2017
    North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum speaks at the first meeting of the Fargo-Moorhead Flood Diversion Task Force on Monday, Oct. 23, at the Fargodome. Blake Gumprecht / The Forum
    Can they compromise? F-M flood diversion supporters, opponents sound off at first task force meeting
    FARGO – Many basic assumptions about the Fargo-Moorhead flood diversion were scrutinized Monday, Oct. 23, at the first meeting of a task force...
    newsOctober 23, 2017 - 8:07pm
    October 22, 2017
    F-M diversion group's first meeting Monday, Oct. 23
    FARGO—The Fargo-Moorhead Area Flood Diversion Task Force will hold its first meeting Monday, Oct. 23, at the Fargodome. The group, appointed by North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton, will meet from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Room 203 at the dome, 1800 N....
    newsOctober 22, 2017 - 10:33pm
    October 11, 2017
    Maj. Gen. Richard Kaiser, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers division commander, met in a closed door meeting with Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, some members of the Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Authority and staff at the Fargo Public Library Oct. 11, 2017. Tu-Uyen Tran / The Forum of Fargo-Moorheadplay button
    Forum reporter again kicked out of flood diversion meeting
    FARGO – A Forum reporter was escorted out of an F-M flood diversion meeting Wednesday at the downtown public library that included about 36...
    newsOctober 11, 2017 - 7:40pm
    September 15, 2017
    Weather Talk: Climate statistics are frequently misunderstood
    Statistics are often misused and misunderstood. Climatologists occasionally refer to a particular storm or flood as a 100-year or 500-year storm....
    newsSeptember 15, 2017 - 5:39am
    September 7, 2017
    Judge orders halt to work on Fargo-Moorhead flood diversion project
    FARGO – Work on the flood diversion to protect Fargo-Moorhead must stop immediately pending the outcome of a years-long lawsuit, a federal...
    newsSeptember 7, 2017 - 3:35pm
    August 30, 2017
    Former President Bill Clinton is cheered on by supporters following his speech in downtown Grand Forks at the flood obelisk. Former Grand Forks mayor Pat Owens and other city officials from the flood of 1997 in Grand Forks and East Grand Forks join Clinton on stage. photo by Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald
    McFeely: When Grand Forks flooded, the President's words offered aid and comfort
    President Donald Trump tried to make a save Wednesday, prefacing remarks in Missouri about tax cuts with words of supposed support for those...
    opinionAugust 30, 2017 - 5:48pm
    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 20, 2017
    Fargo-Moorhead flood facilities tour June 28
    FARGO — The North Dakota Water Education Foundation will host a tour of flood-prevention infrastructure in the Fargo-Moorhead area on Wednesday, June 28. The tour will visit the floodwalls in the El Zagal and Michelson neighborhoods in north Fargo, the floodwalls under construction...
    newsJune 20, 2017 - 7:43am
    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
    May 25, 2017
    The Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Authority and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials break ground Monday, April 17, 2017, on the flood diversion at the site of the dam inlet structure south of Horace, N.D. Michael Vosburg / Forum News Service
    Corps sets aside $20 million for F-M diversion
    FARGO — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has set aside $20 million of its budget this year for work on the Fargo-Moorhead flood diversion,...
    newsMay 25, 2017 - 7:16pm
    May 15, 2017
    Life along the Red River in Fargo is changing dramatically thanks, in part, to efforts to protect the city from river flooding, including a newly constructed floodwall. Ann Arbor Miller / MPR News 90.3 FM
    Diversion backers hope Trump infrastructure plan could give project federal funding
    ST. PAUL - President Trump wants to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure and the proposals are pouring in. Some of that potential spending, however,...
    newsMay 15, 2017 - 6:00am
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