The setting for Christmas in North Dakota is quite different than the setting depicted in the traditional Nativity scene of the first Christmas. That setting is a half-open stable where the Christ Child’s birth took place, with Wise Men from the East arriving on camels and shepherds who ...

Eighty-two years ago on Dec. 7, 1941, the “Day of Infamy,” as President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it, at 12:25 p.m. (Minot time) the first bombs dropped that would plunge the United States into World War II. On this day a Japanese armada of more than 100 planes and midget submarines ...

The Minot community and this country lost one of the Greatest Generation with the passing on Thursday of Ed Zilli. Zilli, of Minot, who celebrated his 100th birthday on Feb. 8, was a decorated World War II veteran and among a diminishing number of World War II veterans at the time of his ...

It was a winning weekend for Minot sports teams last weekend. On the athletics side, Minot High’s football team won its first state title since 1980, becoming the 2023 NDHSAA Class AAA Football champions after defeating Fargo Shanley at the Dakota Bowl in Fargo. Senior running back Tyson ...

Readers have the final say in The Minot Daily News’ Best of the Best contest. For many years, Minot residents have looked forward to voting in the Best of the Best contest to support their favorite local businesses, organizations, people and attractions. This is the biggest contest ...

When The Minot Daily News published a story earlier this week about folks at a visitor center in Pennsylvania hoping someone from North Dakota would stop by to be the first one from this state to sign the center’s register, it didn’t take long for the word to get out. Chuck Hubbell, an ...