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ND farm stress crisis demands lasting support

Mental-health experts are calling for more sustained support for the well-being of agricultural communities in North Dakota, where farmers face pressures ranging from soaring input costs and labor uncertainty to extreme weather, financial strain, health-care costs and family stress. Florence ...

Campaign gifts New Town veteran with donation effort

BISMARCK – A campaign to raise donations in 50 days for 50 veterans in 50 states recently came to North Dakota to honor Army and Vietnam War veteran Logan Davis. On Saturday, May 30, Davis received a visit from country artist Coffey Anderson, during which a video was made to help share his ...

Data center expert urges caution

An environmental health specialist who has been issuing warnings about data centers around the country brought her message to Minot Friday, June 5. Tammy Clark said some Americans already are living with environmental hazards because hyperscale data centers have been built without the public ...

Trinity Homes, Kenmare hospital receive quality awards

Trinity Homes in Minot and Trinity Health Kenmare Hospital in Kenmare were recognized recently for outstanding quality. Trinity Homes earned the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living 2026 Bronze Commitment to Quality Award, according to the North Dakota Long Term Care Association. Trinity is one of four skilled nursing facilities in North Dakota to have earned the distinction, which is the first of three progressive award levels of bronze, silver and gold through the AHCA/NCAL National Quality Award Program. The program recognizes long term and ...

Immigration invoked in D-Day speech

PARIS (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a D-Day anniversary speech on Saturday to appear to link immigration by sea to the wartime liberation of Europe, warning that the freedom won by Allied troops could prove temporary if leaders failed to defend it. Hegseth, speaking at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer in northwestern France during commemorations for the 82nd anniversary of the June 6, 1944, landings, said that today, “different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies.” “Beaches in Spain and Italy and Greece and ...

NDDOT to mow along state highways

BISMARCK – The North Dakota Department of Transportation announced crews will begin mowing a 7-10-foot clearance along shoulders of state highways starting in mid-June to July 1, depending on grass height. Additional mowing could take place sooner at highway intersections and in urban areas. Adjacent landowners who plan to mow non-interstate ditches for hay should do so before the state mows these areas. Private mowing is not allowed in medians of four-lane highways. North Dakota state law requires hay bales to be stored on the outer edge of the right of way. Large round bales ...