Flooded Fargo-Area Toll Bridge Might Stay Closed
A flooded toll bridge between Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minn., might remain closed even after the Red River recedes.
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A flooded toll bridge between Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minn., might remain closed even after the Red River recedes.
Now that the flood threat has passed on the St. Croix River, the Stillwater Lift Bridge is resuming its normal summer schedule for the boating season.
The bill for fighting the spring flood in Moorhead is coming due, and it's heading north of a budget-busting $2.5 million.
Portions of Warner/Shepard Road and Jackson Street in St. Paul will reopen at noon Saturday after being closed for about a month due to Mississippi River flooding.
The federal Agriculture Department is making up to $10 million available to enroll land in the Red River Valley watershed into its Wetlands Reserve Program.
It's tough to sell cars when prospective buyers can't drive them home.
The state Department of Veterans Affairs says flood relief grants are available for veterans in about half of Minnesota's 87 counties.
Gov. Mark Dayton administration's wants $3 million to protect the tiny western Minnesota town of Georgetown from future floods.
The Des Lacs River's slow decline took the pressure off a fragile dam and the people who live nearest it, with most of the evacuees in a 30-home development filtering back home to turn their attention to cleanup and flooded basements.
About 200 people who live near the Des Lacs River in northwest North Dakota have been advised to evacuate their homes because a dam might fail, though it did not appear that many had heeded the warning early Wednesday.
While emergency workers in boats and all-terrain vehicles went door-to-door Tuesday in rural areas north of Fargo to check on residents isolated by flooding, the Rev. Emily Nesdahl made dozens of telephone calls ministering to stranded congregation members worn out from three straight years of high water.
Not everyone in Georgetown would like to see the tiny western Minnesota town continue to battle floods.
Officials say floodwaters near two small towns north of Fargo are starting to recede, but emergency crews are prepared to respond to calls for evacuations.
In Fargo and Moorhead, the Red River is already dropping. It crested Saturday night at 38.7 feet which is two feet shy of the record set in 2009.
The Red River Valley flood fight shifted Sunday from the cities of Fargo and Moorhead, Minn., to rural areas north of the north-flowing river, which crested Saturday night in Fargo at its fourth highest level in recorded history.
A city used to winning flood fights appeared to have another one in hand Saturday as the Red River leveled off short of earlier predictions that might have tested defenses.
Minnesota's constitutional officers have extended an emergency measure for 46 counties and two tribes threatened by flooding.
The construction of sandbag dikes neared completion on Friday in Moorhead, Minn.
The city of Fargo is delivering extra sandbags to residents in case the dikes need to be raised by one foot.
North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple and U.S. Sens. John Hoeven and Kent Conrad are to meet with Army Corps of Engineers officials on Friday to get an update on flood protection along the Red River.
The Red River has climbed past last year's crest at Fargo and is still rising, but city officials there and in neighboring Moorhead are putting the finishing touches on their preparation.
A group of Minnesota lawmakers will tour flood preparations and areas already impacted in and around Moorhead.
Quentin Goehring died trying to save his farm from the rising Red River. Dozens of volunteers weren't about to let his work go for nothing.
Fargo and Moorhead are doing the best they can to stay ahead of the rising Red River.
Most federal employees in Minnesota would be furloughed if a government shutdown happens; but the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Paul District is a different story.
