5+ hour, 47+ min ago  (311+ words) May is National Historic Preservation Month. Today, we're highlighting some of the historic places included in North Dakota's State Historic Sites Registry. By 1877, the Northern Pacific Railway Company and the Minnesota Stage Company had joined to form the Northwest Express…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago  (172+ words) Now I have read Aurora through in the big bison chair, lingering, scribbling marginalia. Thom's poetry is situated, in three ways. Once this was a world Where strangers who stumbled Through the light along country roads Knew that the light…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago  (502+ words) Two conferences of regional scholars, one in Lincoln, Nebraska, the other in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, have taken the future of the Great Plains as their theme this spring. This sort of thing makes me uncomfortable. I can mouth off…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago  (387+ words) In 1883, Buffalo Bill's Wild West went on tour. The show combined theater, circus, and rodeo. It was inspired by Cody's experiences as a Pony Express rider and Army scout, and it romanticized an American West that was already disappearing. Spectators…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago  (39+ words) Prairie Public Ted Turner " the founder of CNN and a suite of other cable channels, not to mention a restaurant chain, anti-nuclear nonprofit and sports competition " has died. Copyright 2026 Production Test Service...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago  (95+ words) Prairie Public The contest has been around for more than twenty years, and is a partnership between the Governor's office, AAA, North Dakota Tourism and the North Dakota Council on the Arts. Sara Otte Coleman is the Director of the…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago  (376+ words) Pembina State Museum is hosting free, family-friendly programs on Saturdays in May to share the games and skills that shaped the history of the region. Children must be accompanied by an adult. May 9, Make Your Own Red River Oxcart, 10 a. m. -4 p. m. Make…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago  (134+ words) Prairie Public Prairie Beat: Hantavirus at Sea and at Home A suspected hantavirus outbreak aboard a South Atlantic cruise ship is raising concerns worldwide and renewing attention on the rare disease's connection to North Dakota. Prairie Beat explains how hantavirus…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago  (275+ words) May is National Historic Preservation Month. Today, we're highlighting some of the historic places listed in North Dakota's State Historic Sites Registry. In 1925, as part of a push to promote tourism in the United States, the Great Northern Railway organized…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (898+ words) Adrionna Otis first started making beadwork last year. The 16-year-old says her first project " a pair of earrings she made with her sister's help " took about three hours from start to finish. "Immediately, it clicked for me," she said. Her…...