The pits were fired up, lemonade was flowing and live music played in the distance Friday and Saturday evenings as Minoters headed to the North Dakota State Fairgrounds for Minot’s RibFest. The event offered live music Friday from the Missing Lynx followed by Top Dead Center and Saturday ...
BISMARCK – Shane Balkowitsch of Bismarck is a self-taught “image maker” and one of the fewer than 1,000 wet plate collodion artists around the world. Wet plate photography is a Victorian photographic method dating back to the 19th century and involves preparing a glass plate with ...
ALEXANDER – Clay Jenkinson from the Thomas Jefferson Hour will be the special guest speaker at the Lewis and Clark Trail Museum’s 50th anniversary celebration June 29 beginning at 4 p.m. Jenkinson has portrayed several different historical figures including Meriwether Lewis in ...
Nearly 240 Cloverbud and 4-H members will be in Minot for the 87th Annual Ward County 4-H Achievement Days on Monday, June 17, through Thursday, June 20, displaying their talents and skills they have been perfecting during the past year. Ward County 4-H Achievement Days at the North Dakota ...
A plaintiff whose late wife had been infected with Hepatitis C is appealing his lawsuit against Trinity Health to the North Dakota Supreme Court. Mark Krebsbach, who is represented by the Bakke Grinolds Wiederholt firm in Bismarck, is asking the court to reverse the judgment against him in ...
BISMARCK – North Dakota’s oil production showed only a slight dip in April, the most recent figures available. In April, the state produced 1,391,188 barrels of oil a day, a drop of 572 barrels compared to March when the state produced 1,391,760 barrels of oil a day. The all-time high ...
Three recent high school graduates from the Minot area have been elected as state FFA officers. Ben Van Berkom, who graduated this spring from Des Lacs-Burlington, was elected president. Christina Bingham, who graduated this spring from Max High School, was elected state secretary. Hannah ...
The Ward County 4-H meats judging teams were well represented at the state 4-H Meats Judging Contest on June 6 at North Dakota State University in Fargo. Meats judging has several categories that the youth are judged on: identification of retail meat cuts, determination of quality of carcass ...
WILLISTON – Equinor, an international energy company, is donating over $22,000 to emergency management services in McKenzie, Mountrail and Williams counties. “Equinor has built its business on a strong foundation of community trust, collaboration and stewardship. This donation signifies ...
Stacie Lynne Wattendorf, 38, Surrey, is now facing theft and forgery and drug-related charges in Minot after having previously been sentenced in two separate courts for similar offenses. In March, a Northwest District Court judge in Williston sentenced Wattendorf to five years in prison, with ...
Ervin Leon Sampson Jr., 20, Detroit, Mich., was sentenced in district court in Stanley to two years in prison, with a requirement that he serve 220 days, for intent to deliver oxycodone in the New Town area in March. Sampson will receive credit for 85 days already served in jail, plus 12 days ...
A police affidavit provides more details about the arrest of Daniel Norman Dumas, 29, who is accused of intent to deliver methamphetamine, heroin and a Schedule II controlled substance early Thursday. According to the affidavit, police stopped a vehicle driven by Mildred Bintliff, 20, on ...
A 23-year-old Minot man was struck by an oncoming car and killed Thursday night near Ryder when he got out of a van to chase after a dog that had gotten loose and was running across Highway 28, according to the North Dakota Highway Patrol. The name of the man has not yet been ...
The North Dakota Department of Human Services has contracted with Noridian Healthcare Solutions to operate its North Dakota Medicaid Call Center effective Oct. 1, according to a press release.The call center is currently operated by staff in the department’s Information Technology Services ...
Tasked with hundreds of properties to keep mowed this summer, the City of Minot Street Department has been staying on the go. “It’s nonstop,” Public Works Director Dan Jonasson said. “We have gotten through most everything once. We are going through everything twice.” The city ...
The Minot Environmental Policy Group has released the logo for the Sustainable Minot program and revised its participation goals amid higher than anticipated interest. “This was a new project and concept for Minot residents, so we set what we felt was a comfortable and achievable goal of 50 ...
RIVERDALE – Spillway gates at Garrison Dam are scheduled to be raised Monday as the Corps of Engineers evacuates rising water from Lake Sakakawea. It will mark only the third time in the history of the reservoir, which reached operational level in 1955, that the release gates will be ...
Minot could become the first community to roll out the new Statewide Interoperable Radio Network for emergency response. Ward County’s 911 Committee is recommending the county invest in equipment to position itself to be ready to go. The new system will address issues of incompatibility ...