Friday’s article in Minot Daily News about the affordability rankings of housing in North Dakota communities contained good news on one side, but on the other side, touched on the challenges that small towns face in our region, state and across the nation. On one hand, the study cited in ...

Minoters have always been fond of Roosevelt Park Zoo even when it wasn’t much to brag about. Sometime in the past 90-plus years it became a good zoo and for years now, by most people’s standards, it’s been a great zoo. But today. Today RPZ is much more — a community anchor, an ...

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 ...