Cancer Clusters Among Misileers? Air Force to Conduct Study that Includes Minot AFB

Last month, the story broke that the Air Force is looking at cases of cancer that may be linked to working in Malmstrom AFB missile silos. Yesterday, the Air Force announced it will conduct an official study by the Air Force School of Aerospace and it will include Minot. Get the full story from the

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South Dakota extends in-state tuition to Wisconsin, Illinois

The goal is to attract students; then the goal is to retain them. And to do it, South Dakota is lower its tuition by offering in-state tuition to two new states, Wisconsin and Illinois. South Dakota already provides in-state tuition to students from North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and Nebraska. Get the full story from the

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Military probing whether cancers linked to nuclear silo work

The Associated Press has a story tied to military service with Minot Air Force Base implications. Nine service members tied to nuclear missile silo work decades ago in Montana have been diagnosed with blood cancer. There are indications it maybe related to their service period at Malmstrom Air Force Base. Get the full story from

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Bison spread as Native American tribes reclaim stewardship

There are few symbols more representative of the great plains than the buffalo. Their story is just as evocative. Prior to European expansion west, their numbers were thought to exceed 30 million. A short generation later, the consequences of manifest destiny brought the animals to near extinction. Today, their survival is no longer in doubt,

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Swedish govt moves to get rid of permits needed for dancing

Our friends in Sweden are two-stepping into 2023, and if the law changes as it’s expected to, they won’t have to get a permit to do it. Swedish law has long required bar and restaurant owners to get a permit if they wanted to let patrons dance, but it looks like that’s going to change.

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Danish Restaurant ‘Noma’, Three Times Named Best in the World, Will Close To Reinvent Itself

What do you do, as a restaurant, if you’ve been named the best in the world three times in the last 20 years? The answer is close, so you can reinvent yourself. The restaurant is called ‘Noma’ and it’s located in Copenhagen. And why is this story on TheMinotVoice? First, as the home of the

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Northern Plains tribes bring back their wild ‘relatives’

When the prairie was plowed up for farming generations ago, there were things lost that we didn’t know we had. Among those was habitat for species like the Black-Footed Ferret and the Swift Fox. Today, it’s the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains that are making intentional space for the reintroduction of these long-threatened

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Federal data: Kansas oil spill biggest in Keystone history

Oil pipelines are an energy reality in our place and time. They’re also a source of contention among us. Some say we need them and they’re the safest way to transport oil and energy. Others say the pipelines will leak anyway and that we need to reduce our dependence on the oil and the pipelines.

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Remains of Minot sailors lost at Pearl Harbor identified

Calvin Palmer and his brother Wilfred were serving on the USS Oklahoma when it was sunk in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Today, their remains have been positively identified. The Associated Press has the full story.

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Backers seek funds for North Dakota Teddy Roosevelt library

The legislature set aside the dollars for running the library. That was the first step, the second is getting private donors to step forward with dollars to build it. Blake Nicholson with the Associated Press has the story on the next steps to making the Teddy Roosevelt Library a reality. Spoiler: they’ve already got pledges

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NAWS takes a legal step forward, Missouri loses appeal

Today, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the State of Missouri in its attempt to stop the NAWS project. The water supply project which was first authorized by Congress in 1986 ran into legal battles shortly after construction and has been delayed for more than a decade. The ruling clears yet another obstacle

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More cities recognizing value in restoring rivers

What have we learned about past river management practices across the country? Mostly, we weren’t very good at it, and the things we did to help ourselves in the past have expensive consequences today. In Minot, we’re just waking up to the reality created by our past attempts at flood protection. Locally, we call them

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Honeybees finding it harder to eat at America’s bee hot spot

It wasn’t that long ago that the conservation lands of North Dakota and South Dakota were a refuge of sorts, for honey bees. But policy changes and rising commodity prices led to changes in land use and in a short period of time, we’ve lost a lot of prime habitat.

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Studies are increasingly clear: Uber, Lyft congest cities

The common assumption is that ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft reduce demand on road infrastructure and reduce traffic and congestion. But the economics of a disruptive innovation on human behavior is rarely that simple. New studies are showing the low-cost of the service often captures a latent demand from users that would have otherwise

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Diversifying an oil and gas economy in Carlsbad, NM

Carlsbad, New Mexico — it’s a city with more than a few similarities to Minot. Notably, it’s fortunes also rise and fall with the price of oil. It’s a cycle that’s led community leaders and business owners alike if there aren’t better ways to build a sustainable livelihood and economy. Sound familiar? As a solution,

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Fires are torching Montana, and the money is running out

As the rain thankfully falls, there will be a small reprieve from the fire concerns. But single storm won’t right the rain deficit, and the fire threat is likely to remain through the fall. In Montana, where they’ve been fighting fires all summer, the resources are dwindling. Matt Volz with the Associated Press has the

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