Minot Public Schools approved a $131 million budget that will bring a small but welcome drop in property taxes for most landowners. The change amounts to about $2 less per $100,000 in residential or commercial property value, though individual bills will still[...]
Budgets are where a city’s priorities become visible, and on Monday night, Minot’s council made theirs clear. After a long round of debate and last-minute edits, the 2026 budget passed 6–1. Property taxes, infrastructure spending, and economic development all came under scrutiny[...]
Nebraska’s property tax burden has a quiet culprit — state mandates that counties must fund without state dollars. Lawmakers are once again studying how these “unfunded mandates” add up, with counties saying they spend millions each year on state-required services like probation,[...]
Nonprofit hospitals sit at the heart of many communities, especially in rural America, where they are often the only providers of emergency rooms, maternity wards, and essential care. Yet a growing movement is calling to strip these hospitals of their tax-exempt status,[...]
Near Fargo, the fight over special assessments has boiled over, with some homeowners facing bills as high as $100,000 for roads, sidewalks, and ponds. At back-to-back hearings this week, residents voiced frustration over rezoning decisions and ballooning costs, while developers defended the[...]
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Minot’s 2026 budget debate is centering on how to ease the pressure of rising property taxes while still funding core services. A proposal from Mayor Mark Jantzer and council vice president Lisa Olson trims just over $2 million from the city’s tax[...]
Ward County’s budget talks have become a high-stakes balancing act. With a new state law capping property tax increases at 3%, commissioners are staring down an $800,000 gap — and running out of easy cuts. Economic aid, historical society funding, and employee[...]
The parks in Casper, WY are about to look a little less manicured this summer, and it’s not because the grass grows slower in on the high prairie. A pair of recent property tax cuts — including a 25% exemption passed this[...]
For the first time in five years Monday evening the Minot city council took steps to create a new special assessment district for paving and it did so at the petition of several property [...]Read More... from On This Day | Asking[...]
The Independent understands from fairly good authority, that the county commissioners lowered the valuation of several of Great Northern townsites along the Berthold branch, from 100 per cent to only fifteen per cent and [...]Read More... from On This Day | Property[...]
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Minot’s city council just passed a preliminary 2026 budget that lowers overall spending but raises property taxes sharply — prompting questions about whether it sidesteps the state’s 3% tax cap. While the budget boosts funding for police and fire services, it still[...]
North Dakota’s property tax overhaul is reshaping local budgets, and rural communities are feeling the squeeze. While homeowners are set to receive substantial relief — credits that could wipe out tax bills for some — cities and counties face tight new limits[...]
What if the most valuable properties in your city aren’t the biggest or newest — but the ones hiding in plain sight? In Austin, Minnesota, a value-per-acre analysis conducted by Urban3 is flipping assumptions and exposing the surprising ways different parts of[...]
Budget season brings a steady stream of requests, and this week the Ward County Commission heard from familiar faces. The North Dakota State Fair is asking for $300,000 next year — holding steady with its current funding. Other local groups, from Kenmare’s[...]
Minot City Manager Bill Riddle Monday gave the city council his proposed budget for city operations for the July 1953-July 1954 fiscal year. It proposes expenditure of $891,454 compared to about $867,852 this year. [...]Read More... from On This Day | What[...]
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A familiar fight over taxes is resurfacing in Nebraska—but this time, backers want to cut deeper. The EPIC Option 2.0 campaign aims to eliminate property, income, and inheritance taxes by 2028, leaving the Legislature to figure out what comes next. Supporters say[...]