The tax on a $200,000 home would go down about $97 under a 2020 budget preliminarily adopted by the Ward County Commission following a public hearing Wednesday. Budget numbers presented Wednesday will be reduced slightly to reflect a couple of adjustments made during the meeting, and the ...
When Trent Horn sees a state like North Dakota that has only one facility that provides abortions, “it’s incredibly hopeful,” he said. “It provides an example that the fight for life is winnable.” Horn, of San Diego, California, was the keynote speaker at the Dakota Hope Clinic ...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer, R-ND, took Senate Democrats to task for “blocking the appropriations process from moving forward,” in a press release Wednesday afternoon. “Senate Democrats’ obstruction is unacceptable. They are standing in the way of our troops receiving ...
The Minot City Council acted Monday to approve a contract with Visit Minot that allows for the appropriation of $300,000 in MAGIC Fund money toward development of a One Brand marketing strategy for 2019-21. A committee selected Odney as consultant on the project. Council member Stephan ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s top diplomat said Thursday that any attack on his country over a drone-and-missile strike on Saudi Arabia’s oil industry will result in “all-out war,” further pushing up tensions across the Persian Gulf.
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump asked a federal judge Thursday to block an effort by New York prosecutors to obtain his tax returns. Trump’s attorneys filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in New York against the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., who recently ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Visitors descending on the remote Nevada desert for “Storm Area 51” are from Earth, not outer space. No one knows what to expect, but the two tiny towns of Rachel and Hiko near the once-secret military research site are preparing for an influx of people over the next few ...
HOUSTON (AP) — Rain from Tropical Depression Imelda deluged parts of Texas and Louisiana on Thursday, prompting hundreds of water rescues, a hospital evacuation and road closures in areas east of Houston that were hit hard by Hurricane Harvey two years ago. Forecasters warned that Imelda ...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine health officials declared a polio outbreak in the country on Thursday, nearly two decades after the World Health Organization declared it to be free of the highly contagious and potentially deadly disease. Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said at a ...
BISMARCK — North Dakota Department of Health announced Wednesday via press release that the state has one confirmed case of severe vaping-related lung illness and six probable cases that are under investigation. All reported cases have a history of e-cigarette product use or vaping. “As ...
To open up the school year and present the talents and efforts Make a Scene Kids Theater has been working on all summer, the cast and crew are transporting residents to the African grasslands and jungle with their production of “The Lion King Jr.” The show opens today at 6 p.m. at the ...
The Minot Area Community Foundation’s Bremer Impact Fund has awarded The Magic City Discovery Center a $150,000 grant. The center’s board has raised more than $5 million so far, putting it more than halfway toward the goal needed to construct a children’s museum on Minot’s North Hill. ...
The Association of Zoos & Aquariums based in Silver Springs, Md., has announced Roosevelt Park Zoo in Minot was granted accreditation by AZA’s independent Accreditation Commission. “AZA accreditation signifies Roosevelt Park Zoo’s active role in protecting our world’s wild animals ...
Several milestones have been reached in the construction of Trinity Health’s new healthcare campus and medical district in southwest Minot, including a “topping out” ceremony on July 31, in which construction crews celebrated placement of the final steel beam on top of the structure ...
The Ward County State’s Attorney’s Office filed to dismiss attempted murder and reckless endangerment charges against Timothy Devon Lewis, 28, Minot, because “further investigation is required.” Judge Gary Lee signed off on the dismissal of the case without prejudice on Tuesday. ...
John Heath Burditt Jr., 32, Minot, has entered into a pre-trial diversion agreement on a Class C felony child neglect charge. If Burditt successfully complies with all the terms and conditions of the pre-trial diversion agreement, the Ward County State’s Attorney’s Office will dismiss the ...
Norway is a country of rich folk music and dance traditions. When “folk music,” it is generally referring to traditional music from rural communities. This music has survived generation to generation although much of it has never been written down. “Bygdedans” (or village dance) ...
TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s campaign moved to contain a growing scandal Thursday after a yearbook photo surfaced of him in brownface at a 2001 “Arabian Nights” costume party and two other similar incidents came to light. With the election a month away, he apologized ...
The Minot Park Board approved a $14 million budget for 2020 Tuesday. The budget calls for nearly $9 million in property taxes, or 43.02 mills. That is up from the $12.8 million budget for 2019 that required 35.41 mills. The 7.61 additional mills is the result of the absorption of the city’s ...
Property owners who create new plats will face fewer right-of-way dedication requirements along roads, per action of the Ward County Commission Tuesday. No one from the public spoke at a hearing regarding an ordinance change easing the right-of-way requirements, although right-of-way ...