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60-year-old Tracy Peters is in the Cass County Jail awaiting potential charges of attempted murder.
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Line workers from 10 North Dakota Co-ops will head to Guatemala in November -
As I write this, I have one more political debate to moderate. This year, we chose to spotlight US House races in North Dakota and Minnesota’s 7th District.
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It is the sights and sounds of waterfowl overhead that perhaps best exemplify fall. Biologists have long recognized predictable seasonal migrations of birds from their breeding grounds to non-breeding grounds, or what we would generally refer to as wintering grounds. They have also come to recognize four basic routes or flyways for migratory waterfowl in North America.
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Ray auditor Ronda Rustad on public service and her award; VCSU’s Dennis McCulloch on women’s flag football; and Gateway to Science’s interactive power-grid exhibit.
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Flour milling has a long history in North Dakota. With wheat a major agricultural commodity, flour production was important to the state’s economy and became a political issue the Nonpartisan League championed. While the State Mill and Elevator in Grand Forks may be more familiar, fewer people may know about Bismarck’s flour mill.
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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In leather pants and a power blazer, Cardi B brings a humble and humorous spirit to the Desk as she runs through a set packed with hits.
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A large underwater wave moved up the West Coast, raising sea levels. Scientists say it's driven by El Niño and it's going to happen again. -
On Monday voters in the oil-rich Canadian province of Alberta are deciding whether to take the first step toward a future referendum on independence.
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On an ordinary summer afternoon, one could expect to see a line of cars form at the entrance of the Sky-Vu Drive-In theater and spill out onto the state road just beside it. As people in each vehicle drove by the marquee to pay admission, they’d park in front of the screen as the sun set and the film began.
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