North Dakota News
Sunday, November 8, 2026
FARGO, N.D. (AP Apri 10, 2013) – Truck drivers who have been hauling sandbags around Fargo in preparation for spring flooding chipped in to buy lunch for hundreds of volunteers. The group raised a total of $800 to buy pizza for junior high students and others who filled […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. Apr 10, 2013 – U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp Wednesday applauded the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) announcement that it would continue six-day mail delivery. Heitkamp, who serves on the committee that oversees USPS, has repeatedly pressed the agency to stop its plans to implement policies that could hurt mail service […]
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Senate has unanimously endorsed a bill aimed at strengthening penalties for drunken driving. Senators approved the bill 47-0 on Wednesday. The measure will now go to a conference committee to work out differences of House and Senate versions of the bill. […]
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The Senate Appropriations Committee has voted unanimously to support a request by North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem (STEHN’-juhm) for a $400,000 budget increase to defend any lawsuits that arise from new legislation giving North Dakota the strictest abortion laws in the country. The […]
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The Navy has canceled remaining 2013 performances of the Blue Angels because of federal budget cuts, meaning the elite aerial demonstration team will not be headlining this year’s Fargo AirSho as planned. AirSho committee co-chairman Dick Walstad calls it a “huge blow.” He tells […]
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Game and Fish Department is hosting informational meetings for landowners interested in signing up for the Conservation Reserve Program. The federal government pays landowners through the CRP to idle sensitive land to prevent erosion and create habitat for wildlife. The next […]
NEW YORK (AP Apr 8, 2013) — Annette Funicello, who became a child star as a perky, cute-as-a-button Mouseketeer on “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s, then teamed up with Frankie Avalon in a string of ‘60s fun-in-the-sun movies with titles like “Beach Blanket Bingo” and “Bikini Beach,” died […]
LONDON (AP Apr 8, 2013) – Ex-spokesman Tim Bell says that former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has died. She was 87. Bell said the woman known to friends and foes as “the Iron Lady” passed away Monday morning. During 11 bruising years as prime minister, […]
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The founder of Farm Rescue has launched a separate foundation to further his cause of helping farmers stricken by major illnesses, ailments or disasters. Farm Rescue helps farmers in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa and eastern Montana with planting and harvesting. Founder and CEO Bill […]
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The former bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Fargo says he offers “congratulations, prayers and friendship” to the new bishop. Pope Francis has appointed Monsignor John Folda of the Diocese of Lincoln in Nebraska as the new bishop in Fargo. Folda will succeed Samuel […]
