Almont News

Dr. Gordon B. Olson, 84, former Minot State University president, died Tuesday, June 30, 2009, during a brief stay in a Minot nursing home.

Here is the latest North Dakota news from The Associated Press Fargo , N.D. Fargo residents are being asked to reassess their levees and count unused sandbags in their garages, as the city prepares for a second Red River crest.

NDMidwest Flooding-Hero Rancher,0134 ND rancher carries 32 calves from flooded barn ALMONT, N.D. North Dakota ranchers this tough spring have plenty of stories about drowned calves, and calves that got sick from the weather and died.

North Dakota ranchers this tough spring have plenty of stories about drowned calves, and calves that got sick from the weather and died.

In his golden years, Chad Skretteberg plans to tell his grandchildren about the night he carried 32 heavy calves on his shoulders, one by one, through ice-cold, waist-high floodwaters to safety.