John Salling

The Minot Scheels has stocked up on the new generation of Carson Wentz jerseys.

The Scandinavian Heritage Park in Minot is gearing up for its season starting in May, and Your News Leader wanted to take a look at how it’s been doing.

Projects on three Minot bridges are coming up from the North Dakota Department of Transportation, and it’s trying to knock them all out at once.

Surrey city leaders met once again Tuesday night to discuss city staffing going forward.

The Capital Improvement Plan includes things like updating city light poles to LEDs, repairing roads around downtown, or rehabilitating the Anne Street Bridge.

City leaders received an update on the Broadway Corridor Study in a special city council meeting Monday.

Minot State University announced that in-person classes are being offered once more on Minot Air Force Base.

The state saw about a 50% drop in air travel, and 77% loss in Canadian Border crossings.

She retired from the force in 2019 due to a degenerative bone condition, and has lived with her handler’s family for the last couple years.

In a report released this week bighorn sheep are setting new population records in western North Dakota since being reintroduced.

The NDSU extension says this year was the driest on record for the October through March months.

The goal is to be better informed to possibly make a statewide program in the next session.

An act introduced in Congress this week would shift funding from the development of nuclear weapons to a universal vaccine for the coronavirus, but North Dakota’s delegation is not on board with the idea.

Despite the ongoing drought conditions, farmers in North Central North Dakota are getting a little more hopeful as they’re gearing up.

Sunflower season is on the way. Growers said that it should be a good year and the plant usually does alright in warmer weather.

The bill is still to be voted on in the Senate after passing the House. Lawmakers are drawing on similar programs that are already in use in other states.

The city pool and other outdoor activities are hiring staff and getting ready for the season.

A crew got to work pulling the trucks out of the station and salvaging what they could on Friday.

She said their numbers doubled because of pandemic job losses.

More than 39 million acres of land in North Dakota are owned or managed by farmers and ranchers.

Calving season has arrived in North Dakota and ranchers said the weather is a double-edged sword.

Amid challenges with the pandemic, the deadline to get your Real ID was pushed from 2020 to 2021, but now that deadline is approaching again.

A bill has passed the legislature that allows 2020 apprentice hunters to apply for the license again.

The MHA Nation opened a new location for some of its first responders in the heart of oil country.

The Mobile Food Pantry delivered more than a million meals across 89 communities in 2020.

Traffic through the heart of Minot may be slowed down a bit over the next few months as work starts on a major project on Burdick Expressway.

Seating is more limited this year because of coronavirus restrictions.

The annual trip was scheduled for April 8-10.

Fire Fighters put their lives on the line to protect their communities, but when they get in trouble on the scene, someone has to save them.

The Minot Police Department announced their top staff of the year for 2020.

The Minot Fire Department will soon have some new options for dealing with grassfires in our area.

With the outbreak of COVID, the Minot Public Library had to take on new roles in a short period of time. Summed up in a report to the city this week.

The North Dakota National Guard is commemorating the one-year anniversary of its mission against the pandemic.

Almost a decade after the flood that devastated Minot, buyouts are still going for the flood protection plan.

More than 70% of Ward County’s 75 and older residents have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to First District Health Unit.

The fallout continues in the wake of Lutheran Social Services closing. Monday the city of Minot terminated an agreement with Lighthouse Management for the Broadway Circle project.

A Zebra Mussel outbreak was discovered in moss balls which were sold in the North Dakota and several other states.

In the summer North Dakota is home to almost seven hundred thousand colonies.

Wildwood Golf Course in Minot is one of the first to open its driving range in town.

The Roosevelt Park Zoo is closer to a new Amur Leopard Exhibit thanks to a quarter-million-dollar donation from the Minot Area Community Foundation.

The North Dakota National Guard are on their longest domestic mission and expect to hit a 100,000 personnel days this month.

An award-winning coach and band director in Belcourt is receiving a town honor.

A Minot high school student is going out of her way to regularly bring school supplies to an underprivileged town in Mexico. The project started when she was in second grade.

A once-retired B-52 is back in business.

A 41-year-old Minot man ended up in custody Sunday afternoon on drug charges and an outstanding warrant following a routine traffic stop.

North Dakota has its first female Eagle Scout.

A fire at the Glenburn Fire Department Saturday is impacting operations going forward.

Minot Battalion Chief Glen Hardy said crews from all four Minot Fire stations responded to the call of a fire at Jefferson Mobile Home Park shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday.

They served more than 17,000 households with weekly groceries in 2020.

Glenburn firefighters received assistance from several other area departments in battling a fire at their own station Saturday morning.