Thursday, a budget and debt deal was approved by the U.S. Senate by a 67-28 vote with plenty of Democratic support and with President Donald Trump having already committed to signing it. The same day, U.S. Rep. Kelly Armstrong, R-ND, was in Minot and pointed out areas where there has been ...

Ward County Commissioner Alan Walter isn’t the only person in Minot with concerns about postal service in the county. Nor is Ward County itself the only mail recipient which has struggled with a variety of postal related service weaknesses. Minot Daily News readers frequently express their ...

This weekend, the Ward County Historical Society and its engaging Pioneer Village is hosting a “thank you” event in its new Burlington location for all of those who donated and otherwise supported the Village’s relocation from the North Dakota State Fair property to a location in the ...

A lthough NextEra Energy Resources asserts the project might eventually be revived, it was none-the-less curious that the company recently tabled a proposed wind farm project for which it had conducted wind monitoring in and near the gooseneck of Ward County as well as in Mountrail and Renville ...

One down, two to go. The North Dakota State Fair concluded Saturday, and it was another good one put on by the State Fair staff and others. But there won’t be much time this year to reflect – two more big events are coming up almost back to back. The Family Motor Coach Convention runs ...

Last week, U.S. Rep. Kelly Armstrong was among the House members introducing the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act. The aptly named REINS Act, if taken up by the House and eventually becomes the law of the land, would ostensibly rein in major executive agencies’ ...