Country artist Bailey Zimmerman has been announced as the opening act of the 2025 North Dakota State Fair on Friday, July 18, 2025. The show will be part of the Country Showpass which provides access to seven events for one price. With a raspy,...
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This Tuesday, judges from Minot Area Community Foundation and Minot Young Professionals will liste 60-second elevator pitches for Minot ideas. The best of the bunch will be awarded grants ranging from $500 — $2,000. [...]
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Commentary: hard choices are being made by the Bismarck City Commission. Minot’s budget process is upcoming. [...]
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A portion of the City’s recently approved bailout money for the downtown parking garage developer is in question after Wells Fargo chose not to loan money on a complimentary portion of the finance package. KX News has the story. [...]
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Everyone who has lived on the prairie longer than a season understands how volatile the weather is — we are a place of extremes. Sioux Falls recently got a reminder that should also serve to spur the urgency behind Minot’s flood protection plan. We’ve dodged bullets like this a few times since the flood of [...]
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The Red River Runs Through It, a documentary film on the Fargo music scene of the 1990s is in the works and looking for funding through and Indigogo page located here. From the page: It’s cold in the middle of nowhere. A faceless suburb to nothing in the third least populated State. A city that [...]
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The seemingly never-ending UND nickname debate will continue with a vote on the remaining options. This article is your guide to the procedure, but do note that — to the consternation of many — the option to remain simply ‘North Dakota’ is not on the list. [...]
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Rice Lake has been on the rise for years now and what to do about it remains a question, but some residents are temporarily surrendering to the water in order to get property cleaned up in front of winter. [...]
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Every driver has been frustrated by a four-way stop stand-off, but what would you do if there were no driver in the other car? Apparently, Google’s self-driving cars are too good at yielding the right-of-way to cyclists; the cyclists didn’t mind. [...]
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The skyrocketing cost of tuition has pushed some colleges into the arena of competitive pricing and discounting, but in an industry heavily subsidized through federal programs, it’s creating some funny economics. [...]
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The Governor is expected to sign a new administrative rule that allows community experts to fill vacant teaching positions. [...]
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We all know that when you’re from North Dakota, we’re about one degree of separation from everyone else in the state, but when you factor in the rest of the world, how closely connected are we? Well, it turns out pretty closely, and new data suggests that though the population is growing, in some ways the [...]
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A Fargo bike sharing program aimed largely at students is growing rapidly with over 65,000 rides in the first five months of the program. [...]
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South of Minot there’s a new school open on the prairie and now attending for the first time in a long time — high school students. KMOT has the story that includes video of the new addition to South Prairie school. [...]
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North Dakota is now the first state in the country with a law on the books that allows police to equip drones with “less than lethal” weapons. Editorial Warning: this article is decidedly against the use of drones for this purpose and without more oversight. [...]
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In today’s frenzied news and media culture, we each bear the responsibility of being conscientious news consumers. Until we are, we’ll continue to feed whatever disease is responsible for yesterday’s tragic events and the sensationalism that followed. Read the full commentary provided by Mr. Lichfield on Quartz. [...]
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The latest national media piece on the oil boom presents a complicated picture of life in the North Dakota oil patch. It touches on the pioneering spirit, the problems that accompany growth, and a places of opportunity. It’s worth a read. [...]
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