More than 1,000 Ward County voters took advantage of early voting on Monday, filling the hallways of the Ward County Administration Building. The Ward County Auditor’s Office said the total number of early votes cast was 1,259 at 3:50 p.m. Monday. The line stretched all the way past the ...

Ward County saw a voter turnout of 8,391 voters, or 15.85% of the electorate, in Tuesday’s election. Statewide, voter turnout was 119,452 voters, or 20.11%, which is down from 27% in the 2020 vote-by-mail presidential primary, and down about 4% from the 2016 presidential primary. The ...

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The “We Can Do Better Minot” theme of a team of Minot City Council candidates seemed to resonate with voters Tuesday as Mike Blessum, Rob Fuller and Scott Samuelson led the field of seven candidates in the unofficial tally that remained incomplete at press time. Voters appeared to be ...

The Minot Public School Board will have three new members following Tuesday’s primary election. Lacey Laudenschlager, Scott Louser and Bill Irmen were the three top vote-getters, capturing the three open seats on the board with 3,094 votes, 2,748 votes, and 2,400 votes, respectively, ...

Chelsea Kirkhammer, a newcomer to politics, took the lead for the Minot Park Board with 3,671 votes, holding 39.19% of the total in Tuesday’s election. These are unofficial results. Kirkhammer claimed the lead above the incumbent Cliff Hovda, and she will now sit on the Minot Park Board ...