WATFORD CITY – A facility fire occurred Thursday, Oct. 23, at an injection well site in the Watford City area, and brine and skim oil were released into containment. The North Dakota Oil and Gas Division was notified of the incident at the Bosque Brice SWD 1 injection well site, at 1866 ...

RUGBY – Concerns about a proposed swine operation’s odor and impact on water supplies led to protests against its permit request at the Pierce County Planning and Zoning hearing Thursday, Oct. 16, in Rugby. The zoning board took no action after about a two-hour hearing but scheduled ...

A Minot man who pleaded guilty in May to the November 2023 murder of another man has been sentenced to serve 23 years after a hearing on Friday, Oct. 24. Quantdre Octavious Mersier, 32, appeared in North Central District Court in Minot before Judge Todd Cresap. Mersier had previously pleaded ...

Local residents joined together Saturday, Sept. 20, at Oak Park for the annual Walk to End Alzheimer’s-Minot, raising more than $58,180 to support Alzheimer’s Association programs, services and dementia research. A total of 323 walkers, donors and sponsors participated in this year’s ...

BISMARCK – Free preview screenings of the documentary series “The American Revolution,” directed and produced by Ken Burns, will be held Sunday, Nov. 2, beginning at 1 p.m. at the North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum in Bismarck. The screenings are part of the ND25 Kickoff ...

CRARY – A 38-year-old Devils Lake woman was seriously injured when the vehicle she was driving, and a van carrying nine members of the Lake Region College men’s basketball team and its driver crashed on U.S. Highway 2, about two and a half miles southeast of Crary in Ramsey County ...