Coaches report: Minot girls soccer HC Matt Pfau
MINOT, N.D. – While Minot comes into the contest with an unblemished 5-0 record, Jamestown owns a season mark of 2-1-2. In 2019, the Majettes finished runner-up in the state championship tournament. The Minot Daily News reached out to Majettes soccer coach Matt Pfau for…
Regier withdraws from consideration for Minot State Men’s Hockey coaching gig
MINOT, N.D. – Wade Regier has withdrawn his name from consideration to keep his role as Minot State Men’s Hockey head coach, as the team transitions from a club sport to an athletic department sport, Minot State Athletic Director Andy Carter announced Thursday. Regier was withdrawing…
Man accused of touching 4-year-old in public bathroom going to trial
BISMARCK, N.D. – A Hettinger man charged with gross sexual imposition pleaded not guilty in court Friday. Fifty-seven-year-old Gregg Jacobson is accused of inappropriately touching a 4-year-old in the bathroom of a Mandan restaurant in March. On Friday a judge found probable cause to continue…
A Double Standard for Vandalism?
MINOT, N.D. — Moorhead, Minnesota, made national headlines recently in a way that no community wants to make national headlines. A mosque, the Moorhead Fargo Islamic Community Center, was vandalized with spray-painted racial slurs, bigoted statements, and allusions to Nazism. A 22-year-old Dickinson man has been arrested for…
Gov. Burgum lifts North Dakota’s COVID-19 emergency declaration
FARGO, N.D. – Higher vaccination rates with positive end results are leading to a major decision in the state of North Dakota. Governor Doug Burgum is lifting North Dakota’s COVID-19 emergency declaration today. The decision for the emergency declaration was made almost 15 months ago…
North Dakota legislative session ends; Marked by a record budget, pandemic
N.D. – The 2021 session of the North Dakota Legislature has ended. Both houses gaveled out shortly after midnight. The session was marked by a nearly $17-billion dollar, record-high budget. That’s about $2.1 billion more than the current budget cycle that ends June 30. Veteran…
North Dakota’s Grand Farm sounds off in US Senate hearing
N.D. – Grand Farm launched in 2017, after a speech by Fargo-based agricultural entrepreneur Barry Batcheller, who urged the emphasis of a “major” focus for the region to continue its long-standing agricultural technology leadership, led by luminary companies such as Titan Machinery, Bobcat and Steiger Tractor…
North Dakota town evacuates as grass fire threatens
CARPIO, N.D. – A small northwestern North Dakota town was evacuated Friday as fire crews battled a grass fire threatening the town. Carpio, a town of about 150 people, was evacuated as a precaution. Ward County emergency manager Jen Wiechmann said no buildings in the…
