Today in Minot

AI is flooding into classrooms, and the usual question is whether schools can keep up. But there’s a better question: who should be steering this? Alix Guerrier, CEO of DonorsChoose, thinks the answer is teachers—and his organization has the data to back it up. The most common AI requests they’re seeing aren’t about productivity. They’re about personalization: real-time translation for multilingual learners, adapted lessons for students with disabilities. It’s a human-centered use case emerging from the ground up.

A camera, a microphone, and a simple question: tell us something good that happened to you this year. That’s all it took. Students at Minot North stepped up and shared—big moments, small ones, the kind of memories that stick. It’s a nice reminder heading into the new year. Sometimes the good is already there. You just have to ask. Kyara Brown with KX News did just that and her segment is worth watch.

Over the course of 2025, deepfakes improved dramatically. AI-generated faces, voices and full-body performances that mimic real people increased in quality far beyond what even many experts expected would be the case just a few years ago. They were also increasingly used to deceive people. For...

What a difference a year — and a bold policy change — makes. Across North Dakota, property tax statements have been arriving in mailboxes ahead of today’s deadline for counties to mail them to homeowners. And while it’s not a Christmas miracle, it’s certainly a welcome...

Starting January 2, Manitobans aged 45 and older can self-refer for breast cancer screening—five years earlier than before. The province has hired new mammography technologists, is upgrading equipment across the province, and has expanded outreach to First Nations and newcomer communities to reduce access barriers. CancerCare Manitoba expects to complete around 47,000 screens this year. It’s a straightforward expansion of a program that catches cancer earlier, when treatment works best. Colleen Houde with Steinbach Online has the full story.

Early winter in North Dakota is unlike anything else – a time of transition, not just in the weather, but in mindset. The landscape quiets. The urgency of fall – hunting seasons, harvest, migration – fades and the brown turns white. Christmas and the holidays add...

When Michael Frye took over as Minot’s police chief in July, the department was heading toward 12-hour shifts just to stay functional. Six months later, staffing is nearly full, morale is up, and Frye is focused on what comes next: more training, more less-lethal options, a stronger K-9 program, and officers developed to be the next generation of leaders. His philosophy is simple—don’t start with “no,” start with how do we get to “yes.” Jill Shramm with the Minot Daily News has the profile worth reading.

Allen Olson served one term as North Dakota’s governor, from 1981 to 1984. He lost his reelection bid after a newspaper report revealed he hadn’t filed his taxes—but he never held a grudge. The editor who ran that story said the two became friends. That says something. Olson, who died Friday at 87, also served eight years as attorney general and helped shape the state’s charitable gambling rules. He was remembered this week as decent, steady, and proud of where he came from. Jeff Beach with North Dakota Monitor has the full profile on the former Governor.