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,...
Read MoreSubscribe 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!
Here in North Dakota, we’re pretty insulated from the need to speak a second language, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t learn one. And the more we learn about languages, the more we discover the benefits of being a bilingual speaker. Watch and learn in the video below. [...]
Read & Share
Do you appreciate sarcasm? Does the summer madhouse have you occasionally wishing for the routine of fall and school? Read this and laugh and possibly cry. [...]
Read & Share sourced from: M. Blazoned
Are we experiencing more extreme weather? For those in Minot who flooded in 2011 following a wet fall, a snowy winter, a rainy spring, and massive June rain event over Southeast Saskatchewan, there is some anecdotal evidence that suggests yes. But whether the weather is more extreme now than in decades past is hard to [...]
Read & Share
No, I’m not just talking about the North Dakota prairie. For a few UND students, the title of this post is also a real-world classroom experience. Get the full story from the Grand Forks Herald. [...]
Read & Share sourced from: Grand Forks Herald
In NPR’s most recent poll, a majority of American adults say they played sports in their youth. Many say they encourage their kids to play, too, and see health benefits as well as life-long lessons. [...]
Read & Share sourced from: NPRSubscribe 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.
Today I heard a comment made about me behind my back. I started to turn around and look, but then decided better of it and kept my eyes on the field. [...]
Read & Share
The Minot Downtown Business & Professional Association (DBPA) kicks off a new event July 6-11 to celebrate local heroes and channel inner heroes. Magic City Hero Days is a collaboration of activities in partnership with Visit Minot, the Minot Public Library, and TEDxMinot, with partner events throughout the week leading up to a downtown celebration [...]
Read & ShareThis is an older video, but it’s the first in a series of ‘water’ stories in today’s news feed. Bottled water is hard the environment and even harder on the pocketbooks of people who buy it. Get the full story in the video below. [...]
Read & Share
New regulations handed down by the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers are set to make life a little more burocratic for farmers and ranchers. And for one North Dakota farmer-attorney, that means getting more things in writing so he’s covered legally. [...]
Read & Share sourced from: AGWEEK
In order to sell water in North Dakota, the State Water Commission has to give you the OK, and the skyrocketing demand for water in the oil patch has brought this issue front and center. [...]
Read & Share sourced from: InForum
Laws and public policy have consequences, and they’re often one’s we haven’t considered when we champion the idea of the ‘public good’. Here’s one clear-cut example of regulatory policy advanced for public welfare that produced opposite results. [...]
Read & Share sourced from: American Enterprise InstituteSubscribe 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.
It’s not a problem we’ve had to deal with recently here in North Dakota, but in other parts of the world water shortages are growing concern. And a new study by NASA suggests that many of world’s aquifers are being rapidly depleted. [...]
Read & Share sourced from: Quartz
This is some great overview writing on what’s happening in Western North Dakota. The first in a two-part series takes a look at the how and where of Bakken drilling activity. [...]
Read & Share sourced from: American Enterprise Institute
Technology, innovation, and staggering economic growth, they’re all part of Mr. Perry’s second post on his visit to the Bakken earlier this summer. [...]
Read & Share sourced from: American Enterprise Institute
The temperature in the Perkett gym at Tuesday’s flood protection design open house was hot — literally. Figuratively, the atmosphere hung with anger, apathy, and desperation. If you caught the Minot Voice coverage yesterday, you got the matter-of-fact version of the night. The engineering teams that are moving our long-term flood protection forward needed to [...]
Read & Share
The Souris River gauge at Sherwood is in jeopardy because of erosion. Discussion about what to do about is taking place. Commentary: Minot should find a way to contribute to saving this station and the 80 years of data we’ve collected from it. [...]
Read & Share sourced from: KX News
