Estill County, Kentucky, had the highest overdose death rate in the state in 2021. It’s since dropped to fifth—still grim, but heading in the right direction. What’s changing? A combination of harm reduction and a prevention model borrowed from Iceland, focused less[...]
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Dakota Gardener: The days are getting longer
It’s been a tough winter on my spruce trees, and we’re only in December! The heavy snow and high winds have pulled a lot of needles and smaller twigs from the trees. It doesn’t help that, when I clear the driveway with[...]
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Prairie Fare: Food allergies and gluten safety — What every cook should know
“Let’s move the flour to the basement pantry,” I said to my husband. Since one of our family members has celiac disease, food storage and preparation are special safety considerations. My husband has been a grain miller in the food industry, and[...]
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On This Day | Looking Forward to 1934
It is interesting and important to learn what folks are thinking about. It is heartening to feel and to know that after all they have gone through during this long period, the American people have shown few signs of bitterness, but on[...]
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On This Day | Getting the Mail Through
After his gasoline had given out, Underdahl, after trying to shovel his car out of a snow drift, walked to the Oen farm, his strength being nearly exhausted when he arrived there. His car had stalled in drifts several times that day[...]
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Deepfakes leveled up in 2025 – here’s what’s coming next
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[...]
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Former North Dakota Gov. Allen Olson dies at 87
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[...]
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Minot’s new police chief believes department headed in right direction
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,[...]
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Embrace the Winter
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[...]
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Manitoba government lowers breast cancer screening age to 45
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[...]
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Property Tax Relief Is Working—and We’re Just Getting Started
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,[...]
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Minot high school students tell us something good that happened this year
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[...]
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Can teacher wisdom steer the AI transition in education?
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[...]
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On This Day | For a New Year and a Lifetime
A long time ago, Oliver Goldsmith said: "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." We are going to stumble and fall as citizens, as states, and as nations mistakes will be made. The need[...]
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On This Day | Media Literacy In the Schools?
... believes pupils should be taught how to read and study the news in the better class of newspapers. A careful grasp of the dangers besetting government, he holds, can only be had by serious study of the actual developments day by[...]
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On This Day | Looking Forward From 1923
What do you consider one or more of the important things that should be done for the benefit of Minot or the Minot community during 1924? [...]Read More... from On This Day | Looking Forward From 1923