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The competition among four groups vying to build Fargo's new convention center is down to the wire. Drekker/Brewhalla's proposal was selected by the Fargo Convention Center Committee, but the City Commission will have the final say. A final decision could come as early as next Tuesday, May 26.
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The money will be matched with funds from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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Brenda and Matt McCasson own Velva Fresh Foods and have tried to be creative to keep customers coming back to their small-town North Dakota grocery store.
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Measles cases are rising in North Dakota. Track confirmed cases at the interactive map linked below.
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Child care access, affordability and workforce shortages in North Dakota, plus Drekker’s vision for a future Fargo convention center and entertainment district.
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The United States was not prepared for a foreign war as tensions with Spain rose in 1898. Then, on February 15, 1898, the battleship Maine exploded in Havana Harbor. Two hundred sixty American sailors were killed, and war seemed inevitable.
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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Georgia is a swing state where both Democrats and Republicans are deciding the direction their parties will take in the fall in races for the senate and the governor's mansion.
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The novel is the first work translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the award, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.
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Ward learned the term "respair" — meaning the recovery of hope after despair — during the pandemic. Her new book On Witness and Respair is an essay collection on grief, motherhood and survival.