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Open houses set for Compatible Use Study

The City of Minot is updating the 2015 Minot Air Force Base Joint Land Use Study with a Compatible Use Study addendum and invites the public to participate in three public open houses in early June. The city has retained HR Green, a planning and engineering consulting firm, to lead the ...

Minot airport awarded improvement funds

Minot International Airport has been awarded $1 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration to reconstruct an existing ditch and a 6,688-square-foot hangar. The funding is part of more than $6.6 million awarded to airports across the state from the ...

State superintendent seeks applicants for student cabinet

BISMARCK – State school superintendent Levi Bachmeier is inviting young North Dakotans to serve on his Superintendent’s Student Cabinet, which offers students an opportunity to discuss concerns and shape policy in K-12 eduation. Any student in grades six through 12 who attends a North ...

Research Center precipitation

On Friday, May 22, at 8 a.m., 0.07-inch of moisture was recorded at the North Central Research Extension Center, south of Minot, in the past 24-hour period.

Ballot measure for park sales tax focuses on maintenance

Minot voters will be asked to vote a second time on a half percent sales tax for the Minot Park District when they go to the polls June 9. The first time around, the focus had been on a new turf facility, which is still in the long-term plan, Park Board President Chelsea Kirkhammer said of the ...

Charges filed against truck driver for fatal Watford City crash

WATFORD CITY – Charges have been filed by the State of North Dakota in Northwest District Court against a Tennessee man for a Sept. 28, 2025, crash at the intersection of U.S. Highway 85 and 23rd Street, south of Watford City, in which two people died and a third person was ...