When is the moment when you’re least likely to shop your health care transportation alternatives for the option covered by your insurance? I suspect it may be when the term ‘air ambulance’ enters the conversation. A new North Dakota law aims to fix the problem.
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Evolution has given owls an added advantage in the world of predatory flight — almost perfectly silent motion. And to believe it, you can now see and not hear it for yourself. Check out the video below for a demonstration of the skill, then check out this article from Quartz on how scientists are putting
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How do you create foot traffic, generate buzz, and get peoples’ minds off the never ending construction? In Regina, artists are working with shopkeepers to create galleries in storefront windows.
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How do you know when something is news and a no brainer? When Heidi Heitkamp and Rob Port are on the same side of an issue.
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Fargo police are on the scene of a second homicide in as many days and they have a person of interest in custody. Details from the Fargo Forum.
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In this weeks AgweekTV, RDO owner Ron Offutt speaks on his company’s plan to add almost 7,000 acres of potato production land reliant on irrigation from an aquifer, Country of Origin Labeling, and modern technology driven dairy farming.
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A group in Grand Forks is doing everything they can to gather better data about who is using the Grand Forks Greenway. The reason, the data is useful for everything from applying for grants to crafting laws and safety campaigns.
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We know all about early North Dakota pioneers and their struggles against nature and the prairie, but less well known is the fact they often had to overcome political corruption and the railroad’s monopolistic regime. A new documentary shines light on the subject.
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Cities from around the world — from Beijing to Amsterdam and from London to Jakarta — are using digital technologies to engage and enable citizens. But not every city is doing it successfully. This report outlines the differences that form the line between better and worse.
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A Fargo Forum reporter was a first-hand witness to the aftermath of a brazen and brutal sexual assault last year. Here’s his story, and the a bit on the perspective he gained. The assailant Stanley Busche is expected to enter a guilty plea today.
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There are laws in place that prevent those with modest incomes from investing in start-up companies like Facebook and Google once were — before they go public. We’ll be talking about this concept more this week, but this is known as a ‘barrier to entry’.
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Minot Police Department have released information on two separate events. Aggravated Assault & Domestic Violence Minot Police Officers responded to a North Minot address for a report of a gunshot wound. During the investigation, officers determined a domestic violence incident had occurred. During the incident 21-year old Dalton Gruca retrieved a pistol and shot the
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While no one ever wants to deal with the derailment of an oil train, last month’s accident near Heimdal was an opportunity for first responders to learn. Adam Ladwig of WDAZ News has the story.
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By Senior Airman Malia Jenkins For more than 50 years the B-52H Stratofortress has served as the backbone of the United States’ strategic bomber force. The B-52 is capable of dropping or launching the widest array of weapons in the U.S. inventory, including gravity bombs, cluster bombs, precision guided missiles and joint direct attack munitions
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A lightning strike on a well-site fiberglass tank led to a brine spill last week. It’s the third such spill in the last year involving fiberglass tanks. More details from the Williston Herald.
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North Dakotas new system that links mental health records to the national criminal background check system that is used when buying firearms stopped more than 745 purchases in the first year.
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