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5 days ago | 
mydakotan.com | Lydia Hoverson |K.L. Collom |Kim Fundingsland
Minot’s City Council met Monday night to tackle a packed agenda that included possible fiscal policy changes, a series of community presentations, and discussions about infrastructure funding and the history of storm sewer fees in Minot. City Manager Harold Stewart confirmed a final recommendation for Minot’s next police chief is expected at the June 16 meeting.
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1 week ago | 
mydakotan.com | Kim Fundingsland |Lydia Hoverson
By: Jeff Beach (ND Monitor)The leader of Dakota College at Bottineau will serve as interim president at Lake Region State College. The North Dakota State Board of Higher Education on Thursday approved Carmen Simone, the campus dean and CEO at Bottineau, to take over July 1. Simone will step in for Doug Darling, who is retiring June 30 after 12 years as president at Lake Region in Devils Lake. The two-year schools are about 100 miles apart in north-central North Dakota.
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1 week ago | 
mydakotan.com | Kim Fundingsland |Lydia Hoverson |Marvin Baker |K.L. Collom
The Dakotan has been on the ground floor of a breaking story - the Dunseith Debacle. Other media have called it Dunseith-Gate or Dunseith Declassified. The Dunseith Debacle has been a story which apparently ties into potential national security issues, commercial aviation supply chain compromises, public flight safety risks, possible State and federal agent cover-up, possible murder, and public corruption.
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1 week ago | 
mydakotan.com | Lydia Hoverson |Kim Fundingsland
By: Mary Steurer (North Dakota Monitor)Attorneys for Greenpeace argued this week that a jury’s decision ordering it to pay $667 million to the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline cannot stand. A Morton County jury delivered the verdict on March 19 after more than three weeks of trial. Jurors found the environmental group responsible for damages related to anti-pipeline protests in North Dakota in 2016 and 2017, as well as for publishing defamatory statements about Energy Transfer.
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1 week ago | 
mydakotan.com | Lydia Hoverson |Kim Fundingsland
Written byThe Dakotan| The Dakotan•A former coal mine near Beulah, N.D., is being converted to a processing site for nickel and other minerals. (Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)A former coal mine near Beulah, N.D., is being converted to a processing site for nickel and other minerals.
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1 week ago | 
mydakotan.com | Kim Fundingsland |Lydia Hoverson
By: Jeff Beach (North Dakota Monitor)A former North Dakota legislator will take over the seat of Rep. Jeremy Olson, who resigned abruptly after the 2025 session amid a harassment complaint. The District 26 Republicans on Saturday picked Kelby Timmons of Watford City to replace Olson. Timmons served with Olson in the 2023 legislative session after winning a two-year seat in the 2022 election. He lost by 13 votes in the 2024 Republican primary to Roger Maki of Watford City.
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1 week ago | 
mydakotan.com | Lydia Hoverson |Kim Fundingsland
By: Mary Steurer (North Dakota Monitor)Ethics Commission Chair Dave Anderson died Monday at age 69, the commission announced at a Tuesday afternoon meeting. Anderson, a Bismarck resident, was one of the original five commissioners appointed to the board in 2019 by former Gov. Doug Burgum and legislative leaders. “Dave’s leadership of the community tradition was invaluable to help the commission establish itself early on, often helping with logistics processes,” vice chair Ward Koeser said.
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2 weeks ago | 
mydakotan.com | Jennifer Shutt |Kim Fundingsland |Lydia Hoverson
By: Jennifer ShuttWASHINGTON — The Make America Healthy Again commission, created earlier this year by President Donald Trump, released its first report Thursday, calling on the administration and lawmakers to improve the well-being of the country’s children.
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2 weeks ago | 
mydakotan.com | Lydia Hoverson |Kim Fundingsland
By: Mary Steurer (ND Monitor)Gov. Kelly Armstrong announced Thursday that he accidentally vetoed part of a bill that set aside $35 million for a state housing development fund. Senate Bill 2014 is the budget for the North Dakota Industrial Commission. On Monday, Armstrong announced two line-item vetoes for the bill. His office said a “staff markup error” led to the unintentional veto of $25 million for housing projects and programs and $10 million to combat homelessness.
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2 weeks ago | 
mydakotan.com | Greg Demme |Lydia Hoverson |Abigail Kinder |Kim Fundingsland
By: Jeff Beach (ND Monitor)Soybean grower Jim Thompson said there is no way to replace a customer the size of China, but North Dakota farmers have more options than they did in the 2018 Trump administration trade war. The first Trump administration paid out $23 billion in relief to farmers who suffered a loss of trade because of high tariffs. Most of the North Dakota soybean crop has traditionally been shipped to China, the focal point of ongoing trade negotiations.
