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Two additional cases have been confirmed in Pembina County.
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Story ideas can come from anywhere. How? Use the tools – stop, look, and listen. That’s how I came up with the story about the speed limit changes on I-94 in the Badlands.
Each Friday on A Closer Look with the Monitor, Prairie Public's Craig Blumenshine speaks with North Dakota Monitor journalists about their reporting, giving listeners a closer look at major topics in the news, from education and state policy to energy and agriculture topics.
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Prairie Public
In this episode of Prairie Plates, Rick Gion visits with Bishop John Folda of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fargo about the tradition of eating fish during Lent, and how church basement suppers became a seasonal staple in communities large and small.
Main Street
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Lenten fish fries in West Fargo, the emerald ash borer threat in Devils Lake, and a philosophical look at what makes a nation with UND’s Dr. Jack Russell Weinstein.
Dakota Datebook
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In North Dakota, a woman coaching high school basketball remains rare enough to make headlines. As recently as January 2026, the Fargo Forum profiled the only two women coaching basketball in the state’s highest sports classification. Both led girls’ teams. A woman coaching boys’ basketball is rarer still.
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AP
Across the country, Republicans and Democrats have found bipartisan agreement on regulating artificial intelligence and data centers. But it's not just big tech aligning the two parties.
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The average home loan rate has dropped below 6% for the first time since 2022. Will that help thaw the frozen housing market? -
Ca$ino, the rapper's second album for his cousin Kendrick Lamar's label, is whiplash embodied, a mirror for the extreme highs and lows of his Sin City hometown.
