As you run your gratitude list today, here’s one item to add. Today, add a little extra thanks for our police officers and the...
Subscribe to Today in Minot!
It's the free, easy way to stay informed about what's happening in Minot, and it helps support independent local news and journalism.
SavorMinot is a new member of the MinotVoice family. It's all about what's happening from the businesses that #MakeMinot special!
Minot High’s team of top science students will be taking their skills and smarts to the national science bowl competition. KMOT News has more on the story. [...]
Read & Share sourced from: KMOT News
The state Department of Health is going to issue guidelines regarding the remediation of saltwater spills. The goal is to make sure everyone has the same set of rules and that standards are consistent across all spills and locations. [...]
Read & Share sourced from: KMOT News
A public-private partnership program announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture hopes to incentivize building habitat that’s good for honey bees and monarch butterflies. The program will provide seed for putting land into habitat friendly plants and flowers as well as land rental. [...]
Read & Share sourced from: Grand Forks Herald
Senator Hoeven’s office announced $66,000 in Federal money that will be directed to the Souris Basin Planning Council. The grant will be used to develop a strategy to diversify the economy in the region. — Officials News Release, Senator Hoeven — WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, who serves on the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, today [...]
Read & Share
One of Minot’s embattled downtown parking garages is now open for cars. City leaders and project managers gathered Thursday afternoon to officially cut the ribbon. Work will continue around the structure as the commercial and residential space is built out. [...]
Read & Share sourced from: KMOT NewsSubscribe to Today in Minot!
It's the free, easy way to stay informed about what's happening in Minot, and it helps support independent local news and journalism.
North Dakota officials were in Isreal and Egypt recently making inroads for the state’s agriculture and technology products. Of note was meeting on a joint project between an Israeli company and North Dakota UAS interests focused on agriculture. [...]
Read & Share sourced from: Grand Forks Herald
I’ll explain why North Dakota’s property taxes are unnecessarily high, and how we can resolve this travesty. The federal government conditioned North Dakota statehood on the legislature providing a uniform system of free public schools. (Article VIII, Section 2). This is not an unfunded mandate. The federal government gave North Dakota, in trust, section 16 [...]
Read & Share
A new carbon capture research center near Regina hopes to capitalize on being close to Estevan’s Shand Power Station. Located a few miles from Boundary Reservoir, the coal-fired Shand Power Plant is testing one of the world’s first commercial size carbon capture units. [...]
Read & Share sourced from: Estevan Mercury
Our Provencial neighbor to the north is also Canda’s leading food exporter. Saskatchewan exports more than $15 billion (Canadian dollars) in agriculture and agri-food products. [...]
Read & Share sourced from: Estevan Mercury
From officiating to playing the Schmitt family has nearly all the bases on college hockey covered. Check out this local interest article from the American Sports Network by former MDN sports writer Dave Dondoneau. [...]
Read & Share sourced from: American Sports Network
The Saskatchewan Water Security Agency issued their first flood forecast of the year this week. The prognosis: the Souris River basin in Canada seems likely to have below normal runoff in the spring of 2016. The forecast assumes average amounts of precipitation over the next three months. Also included in the report was a survey [...]
Read & ShareSubscribe to Today in Minot!
It's the free, easy way to stay informed about what's happening in Minot, and it helps support independent local news and journalism.
The Mouse River flood protection plan was chosen as a project worthy of an Army Corps of Engineers permanent flood protection study. The study is the first step in the Federal authorization process that may one day lead to more significant Federal funding. Senator Hoeven’s news release on the story follows below. — Official News [...]
Read & Share
Included in the 2017 Federal budget was $5 million for the Fargo flood diversion project and the authority for a Corps of Engineers new construction start on the project. The construction authorization follows a Corps study of the project that began in 2009. [...]
Read & Share sourced from: InForum
There is much discussion about how to fix the problems we have in our country, but for Lawrence Lessig, there is one problem that trumps all the others — it’s how to correct the enormous influence the ultra-wealthy few have on the outcome of elections. The TED talk below unpacks the issue — from his [...]
Read & Share
A Fargo police officer was shot during a standoff with a domestic violence suspect last night. The officer, 33-year old Jason Moszer, is not expected to survive. The suspect in the standoff has been shot and killed. [...]
Read & Share sourced from: InForum
City and County officials gathered for a joint meeting this week. The topic: the future of the Grand Forks Library. And the concept for the building is much more 21st century than the old idea of a quiet place to keep books. [...]
Read & Share sourced from: Grand Forks Herald