For nearly two decades, Main Street Books has been more than a bookstore — it’s been a heartbeat of downtown Minot. Now, it’s turning the page. Longtime manager Lindsey Bertsch, who started at the shop as her first job back in 2012,[...]
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America’s teachers are being priced out of their communities − these cities are building subsidized housing to lure them back
Jeff Kruth, Miami University and Tammy Schwartz, Miami University For much of the 20th century, teaching was a stable, middle-class job in the U.S. Now it’s becoming a lot harder to survive on a teacher’s salary: Wages have been stagnant for decades,[...]
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Hotels are now the hottest real estate for converted housing
Across the country, the hotel room is getting a second life — as an apartment. A record number of buildings are being converted into housing, but this year, it’s hotels, not offices, leading the way. The reasons are both practical and economic:[...]
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Port: More problems from Auditor Josh Gallion’s office
Accountability depends on trust — especially when it comes to those tasked with keeping others honest. That’s the tension unfolding around State Auditor Josh Gallion, whose office is accused of altering a county’s audit response by adding words the officials didn’t write.[...]
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ND Development Fund approves $3.46 million for projects in Minot and Fargo
The North Dakota Department of Commerce announced today that four companies were approved for nearly $3.5 million in loan and investment funds through the North Dakota Development Fund Inc. (NDDF) during the third quarter of 2025. “Each investment we make through the[...]
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On This Day | Habits of Nature’s Annoyance
Fishermen have long known when fish bite best. Now the periods when mosquitoes bite best, or worst, have been revealed by entomologists of the United States Department of Agriculture. There are mosquitoes that bite [...]Read More... from On This Day | Habits[...]
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On This Day | Our Responsibility
The U-Boats are rusty at Scapa Flow. No national enemy threatens. Only . . . smugness, coldness, indifference. They are insidious foes. Fortified by those symbols of a failing faith in American destiny, our [...]Read More... from On This Day | Our[...]
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On This Day | Private Public Transit Putting on Miles
One of the street busses, which is being operated by L. J. Smith of the City Garage, has traveled 185,000 miles and it appears good for as many more. This bus travels 165 miles [...]Read More... from On This Day | Private[...]
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On This Day | The Magnificent Redwood (and What We Failed to Consider)
He sends a clipping from a newspaper telling of a redwood tree 308 feet high and 20 feet in diameter at a point 5 feet above the ground, that would yield 360,000 board feet [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]
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On This Day | Hard Times Pit Single Women Against Married Women
The single girls of today are not asking a great deal when they ask the married women to discontinue their work in the business world and give them a chance. We are only asking [...]Read More... from On This Day | Hard[...]
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Tribal message shares economic good news with Minot City Council
When MHA Nation Tribal Chairman Mark Fox addressed the Minot City Council this week, he wasn’t just sharing updates — he was extending an invitation. The tribe’s new greenhouse project, Native Green Grow, could soon be supplying Minot grocery stores with locally[...]
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$100K fee for H1-B visas has North Dakota workforce impacts
School leaders across North Dakota are staring at a math problem that doesn’t add up: a new $100,000 H-1B fee aimed at Big Tech could price rural districts out of hiring the international teachers they depend on. Universities and hospitals face the[...]
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The forgotten story of the night Sitting Bull spent in jail and the art discovery that followed
A century-old family story, passed down through generations, told of a night when Sitting Bull slept in a Dakota jail — and of a gift he left behind: a ledger filled with vivid Lakota drawings. Now, art experts and historians have traced[...]
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A lot of uncertainty, but no existential crisis for UND research among federal funding cuts
Federal research funding is the quiet engine that powers much of what happens on university campuses — from student training to groundbreaking discovery. At the University of North Dakota, that engine is running a little less smoothly. UND has already lost $3[...]
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Minot Area Community Foundation awards one of its largest grant totals in 25 years
The Minot Area Community Foundation (MACF) has announced just over $600,000 in grant distributions made through Donor Advised Funds to support a wide range of local nonprofits. This represents one of the largest single rounds of distributions in the Foundation’s 25-year history.[...]
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NDDOT announces 2025 Name-A-Plow Contest
BISMARCK, N.D. — The North Dakota Department of Transportation today announced the start of the 2025 Name-A-Plow Contest inviting North Dakotans to submit name ideas for a snowplow in their home district. The contest is open until Nov. 21 and more information[...]