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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
Rick Gion visits with Rocky Schneider of Fargo’s Downtown Community Partnership about the upcoming Downtown Fargo One Bite Challenge, what attendees can expect, and how the event supports local restaurants and artists.
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
The movie, now streaming on Netflix, defied current trends in Indian cinema to tell the true story of a friendship between a Muslim and a Hindu Dalit. Martin Scorsese was secretly involved.
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Consumer prices in March were up 3.3% from a year ago, the biggest annual increase in nearly two years. Higher gasoline prices tied to the war with Iran accounted for much of the surge.
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Xi Jinping and the KMT's Cheng Li-wun agreed to pursue peace, but Taiwan's ruling party worries it will enable Beijing to undermine its democracy.