Horace News

" The Cass County Sheriff's Office is investigating a fire that destroyed about 45 haybales overnight as suspicious, Capt.

The Vote Yes committee held a press conference on Friday, May 29, to answer questions about the June 9 bond referendum, and to remind people to get out and vote.

Devils Lake is about as high as water ought to go, the Devils Lake City Commission sang in chorus May 18, as commissioners voted unanimously to "establish 1,446 as the ultimate level of Devils Lake." Devils Lake Journal articles noted that the Ramsey County Commission voted unanimously to support the concept two days later.

Each year, the West Fargo Pioneer likes to recognize the West Fargo School Districta s retiring teachers for their years of service and dedication.

The West Fargo City Commission approved a cost participation agreement Monday night with the North Dakota Department of Transportation for Street Improvement District 2207 involving the overlay of various city streets at zero expense to the city.

A former Horace, N.D., man convicted of rape has moved to the Fargo area. Adalpe Leal recently completed a five-year sentence for raping two girls in May 2004 while they baby-sat his girlfrienda s 6-month-old child.

West Fargo school leaders have unveiled which elementary schools will be funneled into the new middle and high schools the district plans to build, if voters approve the money to do it.

Angie Michaelsohn piles sandbags after they are filled outside her home in the Willow Creek subdivision west of West Fargo Sunday afternoon.

An American captain held by pirates in the Indian Ocean since Wednesday is free and unharmed.

West Fargo police say a man has been charged with driving on the bank of a flood diversion project.

Shots fired as congressman takes off...Snipers to the rescue...Egg roll MOGADISHU, Somalia There's word that mortar shells were fired today as a plane carrying a U.S. congressman took off from an airport in the Somali capital.

Dave Azure, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service deputy project leader, stands on top of an earthen dike that is at the level of 1,453 feet mean sea level, Wednesday, April 8, 2009 at Arrowwood National Wildlife Refuge near Pingree, N.D. - AP HORACE, N.D. - Residents of the Fargo area already have survived one threatening flood crest this spring on the ...

"Unpredictable" is one way to describe the Sheyenne river tonight. High flows on the river are rushing into the Sheyenne diversion near Horace.

Keith Corliss is a West Fargo resident, avid birder, and ND Game and Fish volunteer instructor.

Men stand near a dike around St. Benedict Church near the Red River in Horace, N.D., March 29.

Girls fill sandbags as the Red River continues to rise Monday in Hendrum, Minn. Flooding and now snow are plaguing houses along the Red River, like this one in Moorhead, Minn.

A blizzard battered North Dakota on Monday, threatening to create wind-whipped waves that could lash the patchwork levee system that has shielded much of Fargo from the swollen Red River.

Click to enlarge Andy Hvidston clears a pump intake romoving flood water from the campus of Oak Grove Lutheran School after a levee break flooded the area March 29, 2009 in Fargo, North Dakota.

The enclave of 14 homes nestled here near the confluence of the Red and Wild Rice Rivers, about half an hour south of Fargo, was isolated and off the beaten track even before last Wednesday, when the county road washed out.

CBS station WCCO-TV meteorologist Mike Augustyniak took photos of the flooded Red River Valley in the Fargo-Moorhead area on Saturday, March 28, 2009.