Bismarck News

U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp says the money is intended to ``provide low-income and struggling Native Americans with employment and training opportunities.

BISMARCK, N.D. - The Bakken is big business, but it's also a hazardous one. Safety measures become paramount to ensure the people who live and work in the impacted areas can do so without fear of losing land, limb or even lives.

High rates of natural gas flaring in the Bakken shale formation are symptomatic of infrastructure limitations that prevent this gas from reaching a market.

Ken Burns is used to telling stories that have been told before. That comes with the territory when you work on documentaries covering momentous points in history, including the Civil War, World War II and the Prohibition era.

United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck is getting a $255,000 federal grant to help minority businesses in North Dakota and around the country.

BISMARCK State paleontologist John Hoganson, who was the first paleontologist for the North Dakota Geological Survey, is bringing to a close his 33-year career with the Survey.

Signs that the public's patience is wearing thin after 27 years were evident at a public hearing on the Northwest Area Water Supply project Wednesday in Minot.

The ground-breaking site is across from the White Shield Cultural Center. * Parshall: Thursday at 11 a.m. for the Parshall Resource Center.

Officials in Mandan are considering using city sales tax money to spruce up store fronts and business landscaping along the 2-mile stretch of Memorial Highway commonly known as the Strip.

DSN Radio's sports/talk outlet KDKT-AM in Bismarck, ND has rebranded as "KDKT SportsRadio 1410."

Cable news networks would not allow for Teddy Roosevelt or Franklin Delano Roosevelt to become POTUS today, the creators of PBS's new Roosevelt family documentary suggested this afternoon.

American Indian culture should be taught in North Dakota classrooms to have "a common understanding of where we came from in order to have vision for the future," the state's top education official said Tuesday.

A western North Dakota home is destroyed after a fire started in the garage. Crews battled the large house fire around the Island Road area in Bismarck on Saturday.

THAT'S IT, MIDSUMMER WEATHER, HOT, HUMID. COLD FRONT COMING THROUGH MIDWEEK WILL BRING SOME STORMS.

The North Dakota National Guard along with family, friends and community supporters honored more than 200 Soldiers from the Grand Forks-based 1st Battalion, 188th Air Defense Artillery Regiment today during a Freedom Salute ceremony at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks.

The display at the Minot Public Library gallery will be "Some Things Under Foot," a look at traditional rug hooking by Deb Johnson, Minot, through July 31. The Taube Museum of Art's "Sculpt It, and They Will Come" art camp is scheduled for July 28-31, with two sessions to choose from: 9 a.m. to noon or 1 to 4 p.m. This camp is open to children ages ... (more)

Mass of Christian Burial for Kathleen Ward, 63, of Timber Lake will be 10:00 a.m. MDT Friday, July 18, 2014 at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Timber Lake.

Need a boost of courage, a dose of beauty and interest, or just another reason to nourish your fondness for dishes? If so, there is an event you won't want to miss.

The parents of a murdered Sioux Falls teen say they're attempting to cope with the brutal and apparently random killing of their son.

Francis was born on June 30, 1929, in Endres , to Nicholas and Agnes Allers. He attended Garrison School, graduating in 1948.