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State accepting applications for septic initiative

BISMARCK – The North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality is accepting applications for the Septic Renovation Water Quality Initiative, a funding opportunity designed to support water quality improvements through the renovation of failing septic systems. Eligible applicants include non-federal entities such as local governments, joint powers boards, or nonprofit organizations. Applicants will specify a local project area to provide rebates to individual property owners for renovating their failing septic systems. The application deadline is Wednesday, Sept. 30.

Below normal runoff continues in Upper Missouri Basin

OMAHA, Neb. – July runoff in the Missouri River Basin above Sioux City, Iowa, was 2.0 million acre-feet (MAF), 61% of average. Runoff was below-normal to well-below-normal in the Fort Peck, Garrison, and Oahe reaches due to lack of precipitation, dry soils, and below-average mountain snowpack. Runoff was above normal in the Fort Randall and Gavins Point reaches and near normal in the Sioux City reach. “July brought warmer and drier weather to the Missouri River Basin,” said John Remus, chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Missouri River Basin Water Management Division ...

Minot High class holds 50-year reunion

It was the nation’s bicentennial year, and Minot’s Class of 1976 fully embraced the red, white and blue during its senior year. After a year of bicentennial activities that included musical and dramatic productions, community projects and school projects, Magic City Campus was celebrated ...

Former Minot AFB missileers reunite

Ray celebrates Grain Palace Days

WFD responds to commercial building fire

WILLISTON – The Williston Fire Department (WFD) reported it responded Sunday, Aug. 9, to a commercial structure fire started by an incinerator. The department was dispatched at 12:30 p.m. to the 1300 block of East Broadway Street following an initial report from a person driving by the ...