Thank you for subscribing to The Dakotan!

Thank you for supporting The Dakotan by subscribing to our email list. We are excited about the goal of providing local, transparent news for communities all throughout North Dakota. Feel free to engage with us on how we can better support you.

Chickens-Key to Self-Reliance

By Charlene Nelson on July 18, 2022

Even though I've had chickens for eight years, I've never recommended raising chickens as a part of prepping or self-reliance, until now. Today's food prices are increasing at nearly three times the rate of wage increases. Recent avian flu outbreaks have triggered the destruction of millions of chickens. The result is, once moderately priced chicken […]

Get out and see the lakes…

By Marvin Baker on July 17, 2022

Manitoba used to have a motto, “100,000 lakes” and Minnesota had a motto “10,000 lakes. North Dakota doesn’t have that many lakes, but the ones we do have are incredible. Driving by Lake Tschida on the way home from Rapid City Monday made me think of the wonderful lakes we have across the state. After […]

A Tiger Tale

By Kim Fundingsland on July 17, 2022

COLEHARBOR – My what a fish! Lake Audubon has produced a lot of thrills for fishermen hooking into muskellenge, but the thrills just keep getting bigger and better. Earlier this month Jayd Culley, Dickinson, was fishing with guide Kellen Latendresse when he encountered a monster of a fish. “I was burning a green bucktail and […]

Not Enough Help

By Lydia Hoverson on July 16, 2022

Catholic Charities’ Guardianship Program MINOT – Catholic Charities has served adults with intellectual disabilities for several years. The specific program that helps the community in this area, called guardianship, is headed by Brian Osvold, guardianship worker. Osvold explained that the program provides people to be a person’s court appointed guardian, being contracted with the state […]

Squirrel Wars

By Jonathan Starr on July 16, 2022

GARRISON — Sorry, this is getting ridiculous – Garnet and her squirrel fixation, that is. Garnet, the younger of the two hunting maniacs in the household, like most dogs, has a squirrel fixation. Admittedly Eider does too, but at 13 years of age and a larger, slower Brittany she recognizes she can’t catch them. So, […]

Disaster Declaration for North Dakota

By The Dakotan on July 15, 2022

WASHINGTON – Senators John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer and Congressman Kelly Armstrong today issued the following statement after President Biden issued a major presidential disaster declaration for severe spring storms in North Dakota. In a letter to the president last month, the delegation urged for the declaration’s approval, stressing that repeated storms resulted in significant […]

Can't Make it Better

By Kim Fundingsland on July 15, 2022

MINOT -- “Whatever I do is not going to make it better for anyone,” said Judge Gary Lee shortly before sentencing Eric Rod, Minot. Rod appeared in a Ward County courtroom Friday in shackles, handcuffs, and wearing black and white striped prisoner clothing issued by the Ward County Jail. He had earlier entered a plea […]

Boy's Baseball Brings Big Money

By Lydia Hoverson on July 15, 2022

MINOT — Merchants in Minot are preparing for a positive economic bump. This weekend a baseball tournament is projected to bring in half a million dollars for Minot businesses. The 2022 12U Cal Ripken State Tournament is scheduled for this weekend, July 14-17, where 12 teams of 12-year-old and under athletes, 180 kids total from […]

Elected Officials’ Families: Tim Mathern’s Daughter

By Lydia Hoverson on July 15, 2022

FARGO — Senator Tim Mathern, D-Dis.11, has been in the North Dakota Senate since 1987. Reba Mathern-Jacobson, his daughter and mother of three from Fargo, described what she felt when she was in high school, and her father ran for a House seat and lost. “I remember, as a kid, feeling like that was just […]

Food, Fun, and Cars

By Lydia Hoverson on July 14, 2022

MINOT - Food, fun, and festivities were enjoyed by a number of families as parents took their kids to a place the kids may not think exciting under normal circumstances. Ryan Family Dealership in Minot hosted its Food Truck Festival on Thursday in the Ryan Nissan parking lot with music, games, jumping castle and, of […]

« Previous 1 … 280 281 282 283 284 … 419 Next »

Subscribe for updates!

Thank you for subscribing to The Dakotan!

Load more