Kindred News

Couple: Katie Jerlow and Jason Baskin Parents: Carmen Howell of Kindred, N.D., the late Greg Jerlow, and Greg and Amy Baskin of Austin.

The state class "B" boys and girls golf meets wrapped up today in Jamestown and Carrington.

The town of Davenport is scrambling tonight, fighting overland flooding and now major erosion on two culverts.

The water rushing over Highway 46 is filling areas north all the way to Davenport, meaning the small town, which is 4 and a half miles away from the Sheyenne River, is the next community to feel her force.

The swollen Sheyenne River is forcing more evacuations in rural areas. Two people near Kindred, had to be taken out by airboat on Saturday.

A rural Kindred homeowner is doing all he can to shore up two dike leaks before the overflowing Sheyenne will flood his house.

Some Fargo-area contractors feel slighted Eds: APNewsNow. FARGO, N.D. Some Fargo area contractors feel slighted after a $3 million contact to dismantle dikes in the city went to a Minnesota company.

So many roads are washed out in rural Cass County that some students are having a hard time finding routes to school.

Coast Guard assists U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with evacuation in N.D. Petty Officer 2nd Class Tim Andy of Coast Guard Station Sturgeon Bay, Wis., assists a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service airboat crew offload a family and their pets near a submerged road along the Red River in Kindred, N.D., Saturday, April 18, 2009.

Flood water has created a 7 foot deep gap across State Highway 46 in Kindred. It's 15 feet wide and spans the entire roadway.

Sheyenne River breaks out in northern Richland County Fargo , N.D. More breakouts along the Sheyenne River in northern Richland County.

The river had risen by as much as a foot in some areas since Friday, Coast Guard Chief Exor Pabro said Saturday.

In this video released by the U.S. Coast Guard, federal, state and local agencies offer assistance to a couple and their three dogs trapped by Red River flood waters near Kindred, N.D., Saturday April 18, 2009.

Coast Guard and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service boat crews are patrolling rural areas of southeast North Dakota, looking for farmers stranded by the swollen Sheyenne River.

Rural Cass County is bracing for more overland flooding because of the Sheyenne River.

A new hot spot is the Sheyenne River near Kindred. It broke out overnight, catching people in Pleasant Township northeast of Kindred off-guard. The threat to Mark and Kristinn Hiatt's house creeped in under the cover of darkness.

The North Dakota Department of Transportation and Highway Patrol began detouring traffic on Interstate 29 in the Fargo area at 2:30 p.m. for improved flow of traffic and flood preparation.

A Fargo company is giving nature a nudge in Saudi Arabia. Weather Modification can't work miracles by producing rain where's there no possibility of it.

A rural Kindred, N.D., man died late Friday after getting trapped in a corn bin.

He's identified as 45-year-old Lyndon Lee of Kindred. Authorities say Lee was working inside the bin northwest of Walcott on Friday night and became trapped when the bin filled with corn.