Pembina News

Patrick was ecstatic to finally get at the building of their house. "That carpenter, Johannason, is a hustler! We got all the plate set on the brick foundation today and are starting on the studding tomorrow.

A spokesman for the TransCanada Keystone Pipeline says its construction in North Dakota is nearly finished and the company plans to start filling the 30-inch pipeline with heavy crude oil before the end of the year.

Pembina is the final North Dakota town the Red River passes before it flows into Manitoba and Lake Winnipeg.

Gregory Nordrum was ordered to spend two years behind bars and three years on supervised probation.

Icy roads are being blamed for an accident that left one person dead and another injured.

The weather was great, and so was the hospitality. Twenty-three artists from six communities across the region, including Miami, opened their homes, their workshops and their lofts to visitors during the annual Pembina Valley Artists Studio Tour.

School superintendents in northeastern North Dakota report fewer students this year but they say the families of pipeline workers are making up for some of the decline.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than $62,000 from a man who failed to declare all the currency he was carrying as he entered the United States at Pembina.

A spokesman for the Keystone oil pipeline says crews have finished filling seven sinkholes in the scenic Pembina Gorge that were formed after horizontal drilling to bury pipe.

Last Friday the province released ita s report into this springa s flooding in southern Manitoba and in particular the Red River Valley.

A Winnipeg couple mistakenly ordered at gunpoint by American border guards to get out of their vehicle during a vacation to North Dakota is being wooed back by residents and a radio station.

A Winnipeg couple mistakenly ordered at gunpoint by American border guards to get out of their vehicle during a vacation to North Dakota is being wooed back by residents and a radio station.

A Winnipeg couple's recent trip to play golf and go shopping in the United States went awry at the border when they were ordered at gunpoint to get out of their vehicle.

My wife Jane and I, along with son Bill Jr., his wife Chris, and daughters Isabelle , ZoA , and Luiza recently set out on a family adventure RV'ing through North Dakota.

Maybe Allen and Linda Brown are on to something. Maybe what Winnipeg really needs isn't a new rapid-transit corridor but ziplines connecting building to building so you could swing to work every morning like Spiderman.

With Canada Day, the Fourth of July and the summer vacation season coming up, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers remind both Americans and Canadians that there are several steps they can take to cross the border more efficiently.

Carl Ben Eielson - As a member of the Hatton Aero Club, barnstormed around eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota in a club "Jenny" and performed at fairs, baseball games and any place a crowd was willing to watch his acrobatic stunts.

When Major Samuel Wood descended the Red River in July 1849 , he complained while near the Sheyenne River, that his party was "made restive by the mosquitoes ... We camped on the north bank ... during the night, the mosquitoes infested our camp in clouds ... it was impossible to talk without inhaling them" . Later, near the Salt River, Wood wrote, ...

Apart from an opening night cloud buster Friday evening, organizers couldna t have planned for better weather for the Third Annual Street Festival on the Harbourfront, June 19-21. a oeIta s a very busy place,a commented community special events and attractions coordinator Buck Matiowski, as he busily tended to details prior to Saturdaya s open ...

Sinkholes have developed in the Pembina Gorge of northeastern North Dakota along the route of TransCanada Corp.`s Keystone pipeline, and some of them have swallowed pine trees.