It may be National Zookeeper Week, but there is so much happening at the zoo these days you need a scorecard just to keep up. We want to make sure we give the zookeepers their due. We are finalizing the touches on our largest event/fundraiser of the year, Bacon & Brew, that will be here in ...

A picture is worth a thousand words and sometimes those words come from a thousand different people during fair week. Celebrated watercolor painter and mural artist, Nancy Balyeat, is working hard this week on a custom mural for the newly named Roughrider Arena building in the West Park of ...

It isn’t difficult these days to encounter something aggravating. For starters, turn on the television. Every news channel does its best to pull us in different directions about the economy, wars, immigration, political turmoil and much more. Sometimes it seems there’s no longer anything to ...

Six youth dancers from the Eagle Feather Club took center stage at the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara (MHA) Tourism tent at the North Dakota State Fair in Minot Monday. Ranging from fifth to seventh grade, the dancers showcased different styles such as traditional, grass and jingle dress dancing ...

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Smack dab in the center of the North Dakota State fairgrounds lies the North Dakota Game and Fish’s Conservation and Outdoor Skills Park. The area is surrounded by mature cottonwood and box elder trees and is one of the best ways fairgoers can find shade and beat the heat. The park is ...