Our community is not the only one in the nation to emphasize “shop local” in terms of marketing and message to the public. It’s a commonplace initiative for many places intended to support local shopping and local businesses. However, when it comes to major purchases, and in particular ...

Assuming the City of Minot continues to pursue a new city hall downtown, which remains the focus today, $3.75 million in National Disaster Resilience grant funds will be available. There are certain caveats that come with the grant money, including a downtown location and rehabilitation of an ...

Despite comments by Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden recently, racism is not an “institutional” aspect of life in the United States. But it does exist — and that simply is unacceptable. We as a people need to do more to stamp it out. No form of bigotry, including the ...

Don’t tell a kid headed to a Youth Outdoor Festival that they are going to school. He or she might not be as willing to go and would miss out on all the fun – and the education. That’s right, education. Every activity at the Conservation and Skills Park at the State Fairgrounds, besides ...

Minot Police are once again looking for a missing youth. As of this writing, 17-year-old Jericho Crissler remains missing after having last been seen six days ago. According to the FBI, in 2018 there were 424,066 entries for missing children in the FBI’s National Crime Information Center. ...

Recently a Minot man was in court after he was caught dumping used motor oil down an city storm sewer. We wondered aloud just who would do such a thing knowing that Minot’s storm sewers empty into the Souris River. Since then, a group of MSU biology students and others decided to label ...