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The award comes from Honored, a national non-profit that honors great teachers.
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Three North Dakota beef processors will receive grants from USDA’s Meat and Poultry Expansion program.
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What happens when musical creativity meets a little engineering ingenuity? Minnesota singer-songwriter Ben Ranson has developed a patented guitar with “palm frets,” allowing musicians to change bass notes using the heel of their hand while playing melodies at the same time.
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Most all North Dakotans are familiar with white-tailed deer and mule deer, but I suspect that most are not familiar the differences between the two.
Main Street
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Sarah Dixon Hackey discusses adoption, identity and mental health; UND’s Dr. Andrew Williams explores challenges and responses in rural obstetric care.
Dakota Datebook
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Although a post office named McClusky, North Dakota, began operating in 1903, the town itself wasn’t laid out until 1905, when the railroad reached the area.
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
Gasoline prices fell below $4 a gallon Tuesday for the first time in three months — but the overall cost of living remains stubbornly high.
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Vehicle transaction prices are up to a new record high, according to the Kelley Blue Book — and some buyers are extending their car loans to finance them.
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Renewed fighting has pushed Ethiopia's healthcare system close to collapse: "The whole emergency (room) was flooded with war trauma patients," one surgeon says of a brutal week in September.
Stories from the Upper Midwest Newsroom
After bison were nearly driven to extinction in the late 1800s, Native nations across North America have been working to restore them to their ancestral lands.