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A grassroots campaign was launched for for free school lunch and breakfast after state lawmakers rejected previous proposals.
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Names were drawn at random this week as Fargo City officials create the order in which candidates names will appear on the June ballot.
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36 cases were confirmed in 2025. So far this year, there have been 32.
Measles cases are rising in North Dakota. Track confirmed cases at the interactive map linked below.
Latest Podcasts and Featured Stories
Episode 65 features singer-songwriter Adam Gaffney, sea chanty group Pressgang Mutiny, musician and English professor Florence Dore, rock and honky tonk music from Andy Thomas, and Seattle musician Susie Philipsen.
Main Street
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ND oil’s 75-year impact, a citizen science push on nature change, tech bans on routers and drones, and Dave Thompson’s weekly news review.
Dakota Datebook
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After a March 1966 blizzard that left a whopping 38 inches of snow in northeast North Dakota, the spring thaw that followed created a whole new set of challenges for North Dakotans: protecting their buildings and homes from rising river levels and flooding.
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.
News from NPR
Pope Leo XIV's four-nation, 11-day trip to Africa is so dizzying in its complexity it recalls some of the globetrotting odysseys of St. John Paul II in his early years.
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In a rare interview, a wounded Hezbollah commander tells NPR about his secretive Shia Muslim militia's new command structure and how it has managed to keep firing rockets into northern Israel.
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After talks between the U.S. and Iran collapsed, President Trump claimed the U.S. will "blockade" the Strait of Hormuz.