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Ward County’s uncontested races decided

Sheriff Robert Roed topped vote-getters among Ward County’s uncontested candidates in unofficial elections results from the county. Roed received 13,796 votes. Roed had sought a third four-year term to the office. Following service in the Marines from 1985-1989, Roed attended the Lake Region Law Enforcement Academy in Devils Lake. He began his career with Ward County in 1990 when he was assigned to the jail. Roed was promoted to patrol deputy in 1992, to sergeant in 2000, lieutenant in 2003 and captain in 2015, before becoming sheriff. Minot attorney Andrew Schultz received 13,357 ...

New tribal chairman elected

NEW TOWN – Voters of the Three Affiliated Tribes elected a new chairman in the Tuesday, Nov. 3, general election. According to the Tribal Election Board, Darwin D. Williams received 1,722 votes, naming him the new tribal chairman. Frederick W. Fox, who also ran for the position, received ...

MSU, DCB awarded Challenge Grants

Minot State University was awarded $398,430 in North Dakota Challenge Grant funds at a meeting of the State Board of Higher Education grant committee on Wednesday, Nov. 4. Much of the funding will support the new innovation engineering program that launched this fall. Dakota College at ...

Two die in crash at Harvey

HARVEY – Two Harvey residents died in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Highways 52 and 3 at Harvey Tuesday, Nov. 3. According to the North Dakota Highway Patrol, at about 5:07 p.m., a Mack truck was traveling west on Highway 3. A Dodge Caravan was stopped at the intersection of Highways 3 and 52. The Dodge proceeded forward, failing to yield to the truck and the truck struck the Dodge. The driver of the Dodge, a 66-year-old Harvey woman, and a passenger in the Dodge, a 28-year-old Harvey man, died at the scene. The driver of the Mack truck, a 40-year-old man from Jordan, ...

Election turnout hits new low

There were 16,645 voters in Ward County who cast ballots in the 2026 General Election, for a turnout rate of 31.79%. The statewide turnout was 39.8%. According to the North Dakota Secretary of State, eligible North Dakota voters cast 239,057 ballots during the 2026 General Election as reported on election night, marking the lowest voter turnout in a general election in North Dakota in the last 50 years. The previous low of 43% was set in the 2022 General Election. Ward County’s turnout in the last mid-term election in 2022 was 33.13%. It had been the lowest turnout in at least 20 ...

Past month had above average temp

The past month of October had an average temperature of 46.3 degrees which is 2.3 degrees above the 119-year, long-term average of 44 degrees, according to Austin Kraklau of the North Central Research Extension Center, south of Minot. He said the lowest temperature of the month was 21 degrees, which occurred on Oct. 27, and the high was 74 degrees on both Oct. 6 and Oct. 10. The total moisture for the month was 0.89 inches which is 0.2 inches below the long-term average of 1.09 inches, according to Kraklau. On Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 8 a.m., 0.31-inch of moisture was recorded at the NCREC ...