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The money will be matched with funds from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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This year's total now surpasses last year's total of 36.
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Fargo's new police chief says he is grateful for the trust placed in him by the city commission, and the community.
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Consider making an effort this summer to spend more time observing the nighttime sky.
Measles cases are rising in North Dakota. Track confirmed cases at the interactive map linked below.
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University challenges, AI and student well-being with UND President Andy Armacost, plus Tom Isern reflects on Thom Tammaro’s prairie poetry collection “Aurora.”
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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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Get ready for a biology lesson. Certain plants have extra sets of chromosomes. And it turns out, it's a useful trait for a species facing a dramatic event like climate change.
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Enrollment in Healthcare.gov and the other marketplaces is plunging by 5 million, the new paper from KFF finds. Last year, Congress failed to make a deal to keep the coverage more affordable.
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Critics of spyware, which can be used to remotely hack into phones, worry the Trump administration is eroding policies that stigmatized the commercial spyware industry.