Bismarck News

By Resa Haukedahl Though construction is just beginning, Cash Wise Foods is joining the Tioga community.

Looking at their possibilities for a vacation Bible school event this summer, Immanuel Lutheran Church decided to step out of the box and do something totally different as their summer outreach to the community.

Authorities say a Cannonball man has been sentenced to 2 A1 2 years in prison for domestic assault by a habitual offender.

There will be plenty of opportunities for swinging your partner 'round and 'round and do-si-do maneuvers next Saturday in the City Park in Garrison.

Elvis impersonations, musical variety and a wedding proposal were all a part of the kickoff week for the Bismarck-Mandan Summer Concert series.

David Wald isn't your typical financial planner, as he went to college to become a surgeon and ended up using his hands not in an operating room, but in a ring.

BISMARCK, N.D. — The director of an advocacy group says the number of homeless people is soaring in North Dakota.

A federal judge says the Georgetown University law school did not discriminate against a former North Dakota attorney general based on his age when he was passed over for a faculty position.

Sgt. Mark Buschena tells the Bismarck Tribune that a 35-year-old Bismarck woman reported she awoke to find a man walking out of her apartment at about 4:30 a.m. Thursday.

VOLTAIRE An oil company's drilling efforts at a site in the Voltaire area six months ago came up empty, the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources reported on Friday.

Sanford says its AirMed helicopter will provide medical transport to critically ill or injured patients throughout central and western North Dakota, eastern Montana and northern South Dakota.

North Dakota's top media lawyer is questioning whether the state Board of Higher Education broke open meeting laws during sessions involving board members and university presidents.

Thirty-two-year-old Aaron Collins and 29-year-old Bobby Abplanalp are charged with attempted human trafficking, a felony that carries a maximum punishment upon conviction of 20 years in prison.

The hum of activity hung over Surrey Thursday afternoon, less from the resurfacing work on Highway 2 than hands hurriedly setting up the big top for the Carson & Barnes Circus, a family-owned troupe hailing from Oklahoma that started in 1937.

On December 19, 1953, KFYR-TV became Bismarck's first television station; a beacon of broadcasting in the rural heartland and "A new medium", in the words of owner Etta Hoskins Meyer.

Bismarck folksinger and story teller, Kris Kitko, performed at a "What in the World Is Going on?" event on a Sunday afternoon in April 2012 in Vangstad Auditorium.

Scheels has had a growing presence in Bismarck ever since the Fargo-based company first opened in the city in the 1960s.

You may have noticed a patriotic display along State Street and Boulevard Avenue in Bismarck yesterday.

As Bismarck and Mandan continue to grow, so do the need for services. And a few extras are finding their way in at existing businesses as well, giving a bigger-city feel to a growing community.

The North Dakota University System says a public notice was not required for meetings involving state Board of Higher Education members and university leaders.