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The mosquito-borne illness has been slow to emerge this year.
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Former Standing Rock Tribal Chairman David Archambault II turned his energy away from protesting an oil pipeline to WOZU, a regenerative nonprofit that seeks solutions to generational poverty through land, plants, animals and community. -
Last week’s special Legislative session was an historic one — one reason being that this was the second special session in the same calendar year. Secondly, lawmakers finished in fewer than three days.
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Mike Schmitz, organizer of the 12th annual Bismarck Food Truck Festival, visits Prairie Plates to talk about this weekend's event.
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Listen to a conversation with Cody Two Bears about the upcoming People of the Sun Festival, a story from The Tell Fargo, and a conversation about Bismarck's upcoming Food Truck Festival. Plus, A Closer Look with The Monitor examines North Dakota's new speed zones.
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Fire was always a danger in early North Dakota. Early firefighting often consisted of community members responding and forming bucket brigades. The first organized firefighters were volunteers who trained together and collected rudimentary equipment. But as clusters of homes grew into towns, and towns grew into cities, communities realized they had to develop a serious plan to respond to the danger of fire.
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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A Houthi advance along Yemen's Red Sea coast could help push gas prices up even more as the Iran-backed group also launches attacks on Saudi Arabia's oil facilities
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The sweeping lawsuit brought by Common Cause argues federal agencies are illegally surveilling and intimidating people who try to peacefully observe federal immigration enforcement activity.
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When COVID-19 forced schools online in the spring of 2020, Madonna Peltier Yawakie was already working in rural Montana, helping the Blackfeet Nation build its broadband network.
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