Latest News
A Fargo-based company may soon use lithium from extracted Bakken wastewater to make their batteries, relying less on foreign sources like China.
-
-
GOP chair Matthew Simon says, "This is about the delegates, this is about the future of the party, and about the people who constitute that party."
Measles cases are rising in North Dakota. Track confirmed cases at the interactive map linked below.
Latest Podcasts and Featured Stories
Episode 62 | Sweet Petunia, Julian Taylor, Thomm Jutz, Connor Daly, and English teacher Mrs. Heisler
Episode 62 features alt-folk duo Sweet Petunia, Canadian folk singer Julian Taylor, Grammy Award-winning songwriter Thomm Jutz, and singer Connor Daly. Plus, Tom interviews his former high school English teacher, Mrs. Heisler, about The Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters.
Main Street
-
Oil royalty ruling could spark lawsuits, North Dakota explores a Roughrider Coin stablecoin, spring STEM programs at Gateway to Science, and Tech with Peck - the PC at 50
Dakota Datebook
-
In the early years of the twentieth century, the Middle East was in turmoil. After World War I, European powers carved up the Ottoman Empire, creating new territories under colonial control. The upheaval led to the rise of nationalist groups and conflict, not only with foreign powers, but also with rival resistance factions and bandit gangs.
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
A broad and erratic patchwork of severe weather rumbled across much of the U.S. on Sunday, dumping heavy snow in the Upper Midwest while damaging high winds swept across the Plains.
-
Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KCUR listener Justin Marciniak and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.
-
Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy who helped shape German post-war and post-reunification political discourse.