Merger talks could be on the horizon for Minot Area Development Corp. and the Minot Area Chamber of Commerce. Chamber President John MacMartin has served as the temporary executive lead for MADC since Stephanie Hoffart left the MADC presidency in early November. MADC is not seeking a new ...
Minot Area Development Corp. will hold its annual meeting Tuesday, featuring keynote speaker James Leiman, director of Economic Development & Finance with the North Dakota Department of Commerce. Leiman is a New Jersey native who served in the U.S. Army from 2000 to 2004. He later helped ...
Minot’s MAGIC Fund supported only two projects in 2019, but one of those projects already is having a positive impact on the local economy. The city approved $500,000 in 2019 and $500,000 in 2020 from the MAGIC Fund to Souris Basin Planning Council to create a Business Accelerator Fund. The ...
2020 has been declared a “non-flood year” by the International Souris River Board. The declaration came as no surprise with little snow on the ground throughout the Souris River basin and all reservoirs on the system sitting at or below their required draw down levels. The board met ...
Country artist Colt Ford will be returning to The Original Bar and Nightclub in Minot on Feb. 24. Colt Ford had started writing his own song lyrics when he was about 7 or 8 years old. He recalled the days he was in the car with his mother and she would say a word, then he had to find one ...
The Minot Public School Board approved on Thursday a calendar for the 2020-21 school year that calls for an Aug. 20 start date, two weeks off at Christmas, and for the last day of school to be on May 25, with graduation to be held on May 30. This schedule got the most votes on an online ...
BISMARCK – Top Bakken CEOs and executives will be among speakers at the 2020 Williston Basin Petroleum Conference set for May 19-21 in the Bismarck Event Center. “The WBPC is one of the top oil conferences in the country and we have an incredible lineup of speakers,” said Ron Ness, ...
Aaron Matthew Timm, 20, Minot, was sentenced on Thursday to three years in prison, with all that time suspended except 120 days, and three years of supervised probation for burglarizing a storage unit on Dec. 10. Timm will receive credit for 77 days already served in the Ward County Jail and ...
Juan Manuel Riojas Hernandez, 27, Glen Ullin, was sentenced on Friday to a year in jail, with all time suspended but 30 days, followed by three years of supervised probation for crashing his pickup into a house in the 600 block of Eighth Street NW in Minot when he was drunk on May 19, ...
Minot Public Schools, Minot Symphony Association and Minot State University Division of Music have received grants from three arts organizations in support of an April 23-25 residency at Minot State University of Heartland Marimba Quartet. The arts organizations that provided the grants are ...
BISMARCK – Sen. John Hoeven on Friday convened a roundtable with U.S. Postal Service Acting Dakotas District Manager Marc Kersey, USPS leadership from Bismarck and Fargo and North Dakota newspaper representatives and publishers for an update on delivery concerns in the western part of the ...
Senators John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer joined U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper on his visit to Minot Air Force Base on Wednesday. It was Esper’s first visit to the base since becoming secretary of defense last summer. While at the base they visited 5th Bomb Wing and 91st Missile Wing ...
The Broadway Bridge replacement project was recently named the 2019 Gold Star winner for excellence in concrete in the bridge category at the Ready Mix & Concrete Products Association’s annual convention. The City of Minot, in conjunction with the North Dakota Department of ...
The Ward County State’s Attorney’s Office has filed to revoke a pretrial release agreement for Brent Castleman, who is facing multiple child abuse and stalking charges in district court in Minot, and want him held without bond until his cases have been resolved. According to court ...
The Heritage Singers will be holding their annual variety show at the Sleep Inn & Suites in Minot Feb. 20-22 and Feb. 27-29. Each show begins at 5 p.m. Tickets for the show are available at the Minot Area Council of the Arts office. Tickets will not be available at the door of the ...
Seven Ward County 4-H members attended the Ramsey County Invitational Air Rifle Match held in Devils Lake at the World War Memorial Building Basement on Feb. 15. Categories are split up by age to include Beginner, ages 8 to 10; Junior, ages 11 to 13; and Senior, ages 14 to 18. The equipment ...
Ward County was well represented by the Crops and Livestock Judging teams that participated in the Little International Contest held at North Dakota State University in Fargo on Feb. 14. Both crops and livestock judging are split into two age groups of ages Junior 8 to 13 and Senior, ages ...
4-H Leadership Awareness Weekend (LAW) was held at the University of North Dakota (UND) School of Law in Grand Forks Feb. 15-17. LAW was created for North Dakota 4-H youth grades 7 through 12 who are interested in civic engagement and the political process. LAW helps youth become proficient ...
The Magic City Jazz Festival is being held in Ann Nicole Nelson Hall on Minot State University campus tonight at 7 p.m. Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for ages 7-12 and children 6 and under are free. The Jim Hill Middle School jazz band will be playing “Take the ‘A’ Train. Erik Ramstad ...
The Climate Prediction Center released its latest three-month weather outlook Thursday. It looks very much like weather as usual for North Dakota without any strong indication of warmer or colder than usual temperatures for the period March through May. The CPC temperature outlook does lean ...