EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The Trump administration is facing growing complaints from migrants about severe overcrowding, meager food and other hardships at border holding centers, with some people at an encampment in El Paso being forced to sleep on the bare ground during dust storms. The Border ...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The blasts detonated far from the bustling megacities of Asia, but the attack this week on two tankers in the strategic Strait of Hormuz hits at the heart of the region’s oil import-dependent economies. While the violence only directly jolted two countries in the ...
The Ward County 4-H meats judging teams were well represented at the state 4-H Meats Judging Contest on June 6 at North Dakota State University in Fargo. Meats judging has several categories that the youth are judged on: identification of retail meat cuts, determination of quality of carcass ...
WILLISTON – Equinor, an international energy company, is donating over $22,000 to emergency management services in McKenzie, Mountrail and Williams counties. “Equinor has built its business on a strong foundation of community trust, collaboration and stewardship. This donation signifies ...
Stacie Lynne Wattendorf, 38, Surrey, is now facing theft and forgery and drug-related charges in Minot after having previously been sentenced in two separate courts for similar offenses. In March, a Northwest District Court judge in Williston sentenced Wattendorf to five years in prison, with ...
Ervin Leon Sampson Jr., 20, Detroit, Mich., was sentenced in district court in Stanley to two years in prison, with a requirement that he serve 220 days, for intent to deliver oxycodone in the New Town area in March. Sampson will receive credit for 85 days already served in jail, plus 12 days ...
A police affidavit provides more details about the arrest of Daniel Norman Dumas, 29, who is accused of intent to deliver methamphetamine, heroin and a Schedule II controlled substance early Thursday. According to the affidavit, police stopped a vehicle driven by Mildred Bintliff, 20, on ...
A 23-year-old Minot man was struck by an oncoming car and killed Thursday night near Ryder when he got out of a van to chase after a dog that had gotten loose and was running across Highway 28, according to the North Dakota Highway Patrol. The name of the man has not yet been ...
The North Dakota Department of Human Services has contracted with Noridian Healthcare Solutions to operate its North Dakota Medicaid Call Center effective Oct. 1, according to a press release.The call center is currently operated by staff in the department’s Information Technology Services ...
Tasked with hundreds of properties to keep mowed this summer, the City of Minot Street Department has been staying on the go. “It’s nonstop,” Public Works Director Dan Jonasson said. “We have gotten through most everything once. We are going through everything twice.” The city ...
The Minot Environmental Policy Group has released the logo for the Sustainable Minot program and revised its participation goals amid higher than anticipated interest. “This was a new project and concept for Minot residents, so we set what we felt was a comfortable and achievable goal of 50 ...
RIVERDALE – Spillway gates at Garrison Dam are scheduled to be raised Monday as the Corps of Engineers evacuates rising water from Lake Sakakawea. It will mark only the third time in the history of the reservoir, which reached operational level in 1955, that the release gates will be ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military released a video Friday it said showed Iran’s Revolutionary Guard removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of the oil tankers targeted near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, suggesting Tehran wanted to hide evidence of its alleged ...
PARIS (AP) — The billionaire French donors who publicly promised flashy donations totaling hundreds of millions to rebuild Notre Dame have not yet paid a penny toward the restoration of the French national monument, according to church and business officials. Instead, it’s been mainly ...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Some of the world’s major oil producers have committed to supporting “economically meaningful” carbon pricing regimes at the end of a Vatican summit on climate change. The companies, including ExxonMobil, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Total, Chevron and Eni, said in a ...
Minot could become the first community to roll out the new Statewide Interoperable Radio Network for emergency response. Ward County’s 911 Committee is recommending the county invest in equipment to position itself to be ready to go. The new system will address issues of incompatibility ...
BISMARCK – A special evening tribute to horses is coming to the North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum, Bismarck, on June 20 from 6-8:30 p.m. “Canvas and Cocktails: Painting Horses,” an event open to the public, will feature the opportunity to work with a master artist to ...
It may not be as bad as a year ago but it’s working on it. The northern third of North Dakota is drawing the attention of the U.S. Drought Monitor. In their weekly issuance of soil conditions throughout the United States, the Drought Monitor shows concerns about a growing percentage of ...