Pediatricians didn’t sign up to be content creators. But when parents started walking into exam rooms rattled by something they saw online—about vaccines, about Tylenol, about autism—some doctors decided to meet them where the confusion started. Now they’re on social media, debunking[...]
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U.S. Distillers Pay the Price for a Trade War They Never Wanted
The tariffs were supposed to help American industry. But for U.S. distillers, they’ve done the opposite. Canadian provinces pulled American alcohol from shelves, and sales collapsed—down 85 percent in the second quarter. Jim Beam just announced it’s closing its flagship Kentucky distillery[...]
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Peace Garden announces theme for 2026: Pollinators!
The International Peace Garden has unveiled its flower bed designs for next summer—and this time, the stars of the show are the pollinators. Butterflies, bumblebees, hummingbirds, even the humble caterpillar mid-metamorphosis. Horticulturist Michelle Burnett, working out of Ninga, Manitoba, designed the beds[...]
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2025 Minot Public construction Recap: More than $150 million Invested
If you drove through Minot this year, you felt it—detours, orange cones, heavy equipment reshaping familiar routes. The construction season is over now, and the numbers tell the story: $43 million in city projects, $142 million more for the Mouse River Flood[...]
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Vendor error ‘exposed’ some Cedar Rapids police cameras (Troubling Video)
Public safety cameras are supposed to be watched by police—not by anyone with an internet connection. But a security researcher discovered this week that live feeds from Flock Safety cameras in Cedar Rapids and dozens of other cities were publicly accessible due[...]
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On This Day | The Light at the End of the War
We ran across a lot of frogs and a cook who could handle them and had a frog leg feed. They were fine and we will encore as soon as we have the chance. Guess the war isn’t over yet, as there[...]
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On This Day | Recurring Themes In This Column
Lieut. Howard Huston, formerly of this city, is now Aide to General Booth, with the American army in France. Lieut. Huston turned down a Captaincy to remain with his general. The Lieutenant writes that he has invested in a Ford and is[...]
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On This Day | Oil Crazy Early
Prospects for striking oil in paying quantities are so bright out at the Des Lacs Western oil well on the Blum farm near Des Lacs, that all stock was taken off the market the first of the week, with the exception of[...]
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On This Day | Out of the War and into the Petri Dish
The first case of Spanish influenza, known in North Dakota, developed at New Rockford, where a marine, who presumably had not fully recovered from the disease, visited a few days before the original epidemic broke out. The disease became epidemic in less[...]
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On This Day | The History We Should Teach
Dunseith, N. D.—A staunch American patriot, a full-blood of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Tribe, Rising Sun died at his home north of Dunseith on the 10th of December, at the age of 110 years, or thereabouts. No one knows his exact age.[...]
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Learn and Watch: Carol of the Bells
You’ve heard it a thousand times—that cascading four-note melody that shows up in malls, movies, and church concerts every December. But “Carol of the Bells” didn’t start as a Christmas song. It started as Shchedryk, a Ukrainian choral piece sent to Europe[...]
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A true story of sacrifice
In March 1920, a 16-year-old girl named Hazel Miner lay on top of her younger brother and sister as a blizzard raged across Oliver County. She kept them alive. She didn’t survive. It’s one of those North Dakota stories that gets passed[...]
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Minot State Lifelong Learning Institute offers multiple ceramics classes
MINOT, N.D. – Minot State University’s Lifelong Learning Institute will offer multiple ceramics classes as part of its Spring 2026 schedule, including weekly and monthly open studios. Tuesday evenings feature demonstrations designed to enhance your skills, covering topics ranging from plaster mold[...]
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On This Day | Before The War Called Him Dead and the League Made Him Famous
Howard Huston, one of the most prominent students at the state university, arrived in the city Monday and will spend his holiday vacation in Minot and vicinity. Mr. Huston, who is making a remarkable record as a reader, will give a series[...]
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On This Day | True Crime on the Missouri
What was evidently the funeral pyre of an unknown murder victim was discovered by two hunters near the bank of the Missouri river, in the northwestern part of McKenzie county. [...]Read More... from On This Day | True Crime on the Missouri
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On This Day | Another Old Story That’s Back Again
The committee cleared up its differences relating to militant suffragists, advocates of “sabotage” and forms of violence, by adopting an amendment which provides for the deportation of any alien who at any time within three years after entry, shall be found in[...]