Grand Forks is tightening the rules on who can run charitable gaming sites in the city—but not without debate. A new ordinance now requires that most of an organization’s board or staff live locally, with narrow exceptions carved out to protect longstanding[...]
Month: August 2025
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Company announces plan for data center north of Fargo
Applied Digital, the company operating data centers near Ellendale and Jamestown, on Monday announced plans to build a $3 billion data center at Harwood, north of Fargo. Applied Digital plans to break ground in September on what it calls Polaris Forge 2,[...]
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Armstrong helps break ground on new state-of-the-art North Dakota State Hospital in Jamestown
JAMESTOWN, N.D. – Gov. Kelly Armstrong, along with state agency officials and local leaders, led a groundbreaking ceremony today for the new North Dakota State Hospital. The event marked a significant milestone in the state’s commitment to investing in services that support[...]
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How Pickleball Conquered America—and Its Deeper Lesson About Cultural Change
When a sport is growing faster than baseball and igniting turf wars in public parks, it’s worth paying attention. Pickleball’s explosive rise from obscurity to obsession is more than a quirky trend—it’s a lens into how Americans move, compete, and chase fun.[...]
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Teachers Are Trying to Make AI Work for Them
In classrooms across the country, teachers are no longer just grappling with essays and lesson plans—they’re navigating a fast-moving wave of artificial intelligence. What began as a curiosity has quickly become a daily presence, both ally and adversary. Some educators are using[...]
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North Dakota project aims to boost lost songs of Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull is remembered as a warrior and leader, but a new project is restoring another part of his legacy: his voice as a singer and songwriter. The Densmore/Lakota Songs Repatriation Project has released recordings and research that finally bring his songs[...]
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Ward County Commission | August 19, 2025
The Ward County Commission will hold its regular meeting on Tuesday, August 19, 2025, at 9:00 AM in the Commission Chambers at the Ward County Administrative Building, located at 315 3rd St SE. Ward County Commission meetings can be live-streamed through the[...]
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On This Day | Minot Kid Goes to Soap Box Derby Nationals
Dee's racer bore the names of the Ward County Independent and KLPM radio station, Minot Derby sponsors, into the All-American. Still champion of Northwest north Dakota, Dee told the Independent on his return from [...]Read More... from On This Day | Minot[...]
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On This Day | The Tallest Building in North Dakota
North Dakota’s largest building, the intake structure at Garrison dam, is completed and turned over to the corps of engineers by the construction combine of Peter Kiewit—Morrison-Knudson. The concrete structure, 269 feet high and [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]
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On This Day | Pluses and Minuses of Having an Air Force Base
8. Air Force men will compete with Minot young men for girls. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Pluses and Minuses of Having an Air Force Base
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On This Day | NMMIUTTSUTCAOT (This is Not a Typo)
The Independent is organizing a No More Municipal Improvements Until The Town Saves Up The Cash Ahead of Time club. We plan this to be a state-wide organization, for it should apply to all [...]Read More... from On This Day | NMMIUTTSUTCAOT[...]
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The Great American Fitness Boom
For once, the country’s health story isn’t about crisis — it’s about progress. Murders, overdoses, traffic deaths, and even obesity are all trending down at the same time, a rare and remarkable shift. And layered on top of that, Americans are exercising[...]
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Air Canada cancels plan to resume flights Sunday as union defies back-to-work order
Air Canada’s contract fight with its flight attendants has escalated into open defiance. Despite a government back-to-work order, the union representing 10,000 attendants says it won’t return, prolonging a strike that has already stranded more than 100,000 travelers a day during peak[...]
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Earth’s Continents Are Drying Out at an Unprecedented Rate, Study Warns
Fresh water is vanishing from the land beneath our feet, and much of it is flowing into the sea. A sweeping new study finds that drying continents are now adding more to rising oceans than melting ice sheets — a shift fueled[...]
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Behind the curtain: The discrediting of conscience in politics
In the quiet corners of Idaho — Bonner and Boundary counties — where neighbors wave from passing cars and acknowledging neighbors still matters, something unsettling has taken root. The handshake, once a symbol of trust, is now shadowed by ideological scorecards. A[...]
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Fedorchak praises individual meetings, decries town halls as ‘political theater’
Rep. Julie Fedorchak is making time for North Dakotans — just not in the form of public town halls. Instead, she’s holding one-on-one meetings where constituents can speak directly about their concerns, from the high cost of child care to frustrations with[...]