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Park sales tax passes; newcomer joins school board

The second time was the charm for the Minot Park district after Minot residents voted to approve a half percent sales tax for the Minot Park District at the polls on Tuesday's Primary election. Minot voters shot down a prior measure seeking funding for a new turf facility in 2025, but the yes's had it 3,307 to 2,508 for no. The dollars brought in by the tax will be dedicated to the Park District general fund for operations and future capital improvement projects. The half percent sales tax is estimated to generate about $6.5 million a year, in tandem with a 40% property tax reduction ...

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 ...