Oriska News

Two compliance checks have been conducted this month. The department's enforcement chief, Bob Timian, says two citations were written to out-of-state hunters at the Devils Lake checkpoint after potentially harmful vegetation was found on their equipment.

A proposed wind turbine project involving the Fargo Park District and Fargo School Board appears to be dead.

Maple Valley Elementary Schools have a new alignment this fall. If the Maple Valley School District continued the way the students were placed in fall 2008, only 37 students would have been in grades two through six at the Oriska Elementary School this fall, with no students in kindergarten or first grade.

After a Jan. 31 car accident, Kyle Vareberg sits on the 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix he bought four days later.

Members of the National Guard used night-vision goggles and a Blackhawk helicopter to shore up a dam early Thursday as water from a tributary of the swollen Sheyenne River began eroding it - threatening the small town of Kathryn.

The mayor of a flood-threatened North Dakota town asked all residents to leave on Friday after the sewer system backed up, flooding businesses and offices with murky water.

County officials want drivers to be safe. Due to high water over the Highway 10 roadway, Morton County Highway department has closed exit 97 off of interstate, and emergency managers say several county and township roads have water flowing over them.

Floodwaters have washed out roads across North Dakota, and counties are advising no travel on many of the smaller, secondary routes.

According to the North Dakota Department of Transportation, Interstate 94 both eastbound and westbound has water over the roadway between Tower City and Oriska at mile marker 305.