WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department wants to start issuing direct payments to Americans by early next month as the centerpiece of a $1 trillion plan to stabilize the economy amid the coronavirus epidemic. In a memorandum issued Wednesday,...
March 18, 2020 11:32 am / no comments
TORONTO (AP) — The U.S. and Canada have agreed to temporarily close their shared border to nonessential travel and the Trump administration is considering a plan to turn back all people who cross the border illegally from Mexico. U.S. President...
March 18, 2020 10:58 am / no comments
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A 5.7-magnitude earthquake has shaken Salt Lake City and many of its suburbs. The quake sent panicked residents running to the streets, knocked out power to tens of thousands of homes and closed the city’s airport...
March 18, 2020 10:52 am / no comments
Bismarck (State Health Dept., Mar 18, 2020) – The North Dakota Department of Health (NDDoH) Wednesday confirmed a new case of COVID-19 which is the first confirmed case of community spread of the disease in North Dakota.
Community spread...
March 18, 2020 9:45 am / no comments
…FREEZING DRIZZLE AND SNOW WILL PRODUCE HAZARDOUS TRAVEL THIS MORNING THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING…
A complex weather system will bring winter weather impacts to the
Northern Plains today into Thursday. Areas of freezing drizzle are
possible...
March 18, 2020 7:18 am / no comments
Bismarck A news release on Tuesday evening states, the North Dakota Department of Health (NDDOH) Tuesday confirmed four additional cases of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in residents from Cass, Ward and Burleigh counties. All the...
March 17, 2020 9:31 pm / no comments
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota health officials have confirmed two more cases of the coronavirus, six days after the state’s first positive test of COVID-19, bringing the total to 3. Governor Burgum held a news conference, Tues...
March 17, 2020 3:41 pm / no comments
BISMARCK, N.D. – Gov. Doug Burgum Monday announced that K-12 schools which were closed this week by executive order will not have to make up the instructional time later this school year.
Burgum on Sunday ordered public and non-public schools...
March 16, 2020 7:08 pm / no comments
Fargo (WDAY) Another event been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fargo Marathon Race director Mark Knutson said the marathon has been postponed from its original date of Saturday, May 9, to Saturday, Aug. 29.
On WDAY’s “Hot...
March 16, 2020 10:21 am / no comments
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve took emergency action Sunday and slashed its benchmark interest rate by a full percentage point to nearly zero and announced it would purchase more Treasury securities to encourage lending to try to...
March 15, 2020 4:34 pm / no comments