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$25 will provide one child with a full backpack of school supplies. Kids at Wiggles and Giggles home daycare supported the drive with a lemonade stand.
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Forty-five years ago last week — July 2, 1981 — I started working for Prairie Public’s new radio station in Bismarck. I was hired as the news director, at the ripe age of 24. -
Local officials say the current lake level is becoming more than they can handle.
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For more than three decades, rising water in the Devils Lake Basin has transformed farms and neighborhoods across North Dakota.
Measles cases are rising in North Dakota. Track confirmed cases at the interactive map linked below.
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Construction on North Dakota's Military Gallery is on hold, AI is reshaping work and trust, and hands-on STEM programs inspire the state's next generation.
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On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell spoke nine momentous words: "Mr. Watson, come here. I need to see you." It was hardly an earthshaking statement, except for one fact. Bell had spoken the first words ever communicated by telephone. It wasn't much. Thomas Watson, Bell's assistant, was only in the next room. But Bell immediately saw the exciting possibilities. He began working right away to get his invention noticed by the public. The telephone was awarded a medal at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Later that year, at an exhibition in Salem, Massachusetts, Bell spoke with Watson, who was in Boston.
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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The disability community has long worried about what would happen if special education oversight moved from the Education Department to another agency. Now, those moves are becoming more real.
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The memo from the Smithsonian's secretary, Lonnie Bunch, responded to a White House report that calls the National Museum of American History driven by "a radical, activist ideology." -
Gas prices have fluctuated since the U.S. and Israel launched a war on Iran, which disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and left consumers unsure of what they'll pay at the pump.
