Main Street
Monday-Thursday at 3pm and 7pm CT
Main Street keeps its finger on the pulse of Prairie Public's broadcast region.
Studio line: 888-755-6377
Email us: mainstreet@prairiepublic.org
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From audio formats to spring phenology to North Dakota’s energy outlook, explore how sound, science, and global forces shape everyday life across the region.
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Stories of service, loss, and community: honoring nurses at life’s end, a statewide run for remembrance, and Fargo’s BBQ championship bring people together across ND.
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Dickinson Mayor Scott Decker discusses growth, infrastructure, and the city’s evolving identity as regional attention builds. Plus, Plains Folk with Dr. Tom Isern on a dramatic prison escape that led to a story of reform, leadership, and redemption inside the North Dakota Penitentiary.
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GOD's CHILD Ppoject marks 35 years of global humanitarian work, while North Dakota Magazine’s editors discuss storytelling, evolution, & bringing state stories to the air.
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Clearing up felon voting rights, exploring maple syrup traditions, hands-on science, a story of finding home, and a look at what your web browser is really doing.
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Bush Prize applications open; Creative Kitchen marks 50 years in Fargo; Prairie Beat covers school meals, Horace shooting, suicide prevention, and a Valley City cold case.
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Global tensions, energy politics, film history, Indigenous health, and farm labor - examining how power, culture, and community shape today’s challenges and connections.
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ND Teacher of the Year and students reflect on connection in learning, followed by a grandson’s moving tribute to his grandmother’s lasting lessons of love and kindness.
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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.
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Colon cancer rises in younger adults; cattle-view tech improves welfare; Fargo’s One Bite Challenge highlights food and art; Prairie Beat examines Iran tensions’ local impact.