Disasters

Life returning to more normal in Fargo - Moorhead
Life is returning to something closer to normal for residents in the Fargo - Moorhead region. For more than a week, they have been battling the flooding Red River.
Closed business, services make life difficult in Fargo-Moorhead
Life has been anything but normal in the Red River Valley. In Fargo and Moorhead, businesses of all kinds have been closed for nearly a week. That makes it hard for customers, workers, and the bottom line.
Guard soldiers fight flood close to home
Thousands of National Guard troops and airmen are working around the clock as part of the flood fighting effort in the Red River Valley. Among them are several hundred Minnesota soldiers.
Winter storm complicating flood fight
Another four to five inches of snow is expected to fall in the Fargo -Moorhead area today. The snow is making it difficult to get around and monitor the dikes which are holding back flood waters from the Red River.
Storm stirs up worries along flooding Red River
The next worry for those battling the flooding Red River in the Fargo - Moorhead area is a major winter storm coming their way.
MPR's Tom Crann speaks with News Cut blogger Bob Collins after returning from Riverview Circle in Moorhead.
MPR's Tom Crann speaks with News Cut blogger Bob Collins after returning from Riverview Circle in Moorhead.
Despite rising flood waters, some residents are staying put
In a relatively new neighborhood in Moorhead's Oakport Township, there's a pocket of about 40 homes that are nearest the water. This is an area just north of the city of Moorhead along the Red River. City officials have issued a voluntary evacuation order, but residents say they will stay to fight for their homes even if they issue a mandatory one.
A collection of images from the first day of high waters during the 2009 floods in Fargo, N.D.-Moorhead, Minn.