For the first time, North Dakota utility regulators are considering proposals for massive battery storage sites that would serve as backstops for renewable energy sources. Battery Energy Storage Systems hold energy when it’s produced in excess, such as when wind farms see[...]
Month: November 2025
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Increasing freshmen enrollment highlight increases at ND colleges and universities
North Dakota’s public colleges are seeing something many states would envy: growth. New enrollment numbers show more than 47,000 students across the University System, including online learners and high schoolers earning dual credit. What stands out most is the freshman bump —[...]
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Tax Commissioner Releases Third Quarter 2025 Taxable Sales Data
Tax Commissioner Brian Kroshus has announced that North Dakota’s taxable sales and purchases for the third quarter of 2025 decreased by 0.48 percent compared to the same period in 2024. For July, August, and September of 2025, taxable sales and purchases totaled[...]
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Champions: Roughriders win Grey Cup with 25-17 victory over Alouettes
Saskatchewan fans have waited a long time for a night like this. Under the lights in Winnipeg, the Roughriders finally broke a 12-year championship drought and reclaimed the Grey Cup with a poised, physical performance that felt earned from the opening whistle.[...]
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Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation
You’ve probably noticed them: rogue shopping carts scattered across parking lots like metal tumbleweeds. A psychologist spent months analyzing hundreds of confrontations between cart abandoners and those who call them out, and what he found is revealing. The excuses range from creative[...]
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On This Day | Senseless Violence Leads to Senseless Sentence
We left the courtroom, our first feeling of surprise now turning to one of anger. From the comments we heard from other spectators at the hearing, we had lots of company. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Senseless Violence Leads to[...]
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On This Day | Winter Blew In
Scenes such as the one above were common in Minot this week as winter weather blew in with a fury. Snow which started to fall over the weekend totalled better than 8 inches by [...]Read More... from On This Day | Winter[...]
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Kentucky’s Old Time Music Jams Are Helping Transplants Build Community
Old-time jams may look like casual gatherings, but in Lexington they’ve become a quiet engine of connection — a space where newcomers, lifelong Kentuckians, and musicians of all skill levels find a place to belong. What started with one woman bringing pies[...]
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What Ken Burns learned by making ‘The American Revolution’ (and Will You Be Watching?)
Ken Burns has spent nearly a decade unpacking the messy, violent, and deeply human story of the American Revolution — long before anyone was counting down to the 250th anniversary. In a new six-part series, he revisits the era not as a[...]
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USDA Data Undercuts Claims of Major Chinese Soybean Purchases
China’s promised return to the U.S. soybean market is looking far less certain now that the latest USDA data is out. Instead of the millions of tons officials touted after last month’s Trump–Xi meeting, the numbers show only two confirmed Chinese purchases[...]
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A New Kind of Vaccine Offers Hope for Surviving Pancreatic Cancer
Cancer research is edging into a new frontier, and scientists say one of its most promising tools is something most of us first met during the pandemic: mRNA vaccines. Long before they helped fend off COVID-19, researchers were exploring how this technology[...]
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Dakota Gardener: A little nudge to help young trees
As far as I’m concerned, it’s been a gorgeous fall. The trees put on a great color show and then dropped their leaves in showers of yellow, red, gold and orange. Around here, they’re mostly yellow. Some of the lilacs were a[...]
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Ward County Commission Agenda | November 18, 2025
The Ward County Commission will hold a regular meeting Tuesday, November 18, 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 county’s[...]
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City Council Agenda | November 17, 2025
The Minot City Council will hold its regular meeting on Monday, November 17, 2025, at 5:30 PM in the City Council Chambers at City Hall, located at 10 3rd Ave SW. Residents in need of special accommodations are encouraged to contact the[...]
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On This Day | Is It Always This Easy?
It's still a good yarn . . . and true . . . a Minot man, a few years back . . . had never been deer hunting . . . had nobody to [...]Read More... from On This Day | Is[...]
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On This Day | Before Blast Mode
I trust you will take this in the spirit I have meant it. It is to advice not criticize. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Before Blast Mode