Editorial

Donald Trump should have won the day when the FBI director said Hillary Clinton was “extremely careless” in handling classified materials on her private email server, but he blew it. Instead of counting down chapter and verse the devastating rebuke from FBI Director James Comey,...

GRAND FORKS -- Besides its wheat, sunflowers and new bounty of Bakken oil, North Dakota produces something else: notable moderates on the national scene. In the U.S. Senate, both John Hoeven and Heidi Heitkamp are among the senators most willing to work across the aisle. And this...

FARGO -- University of North Dakota President Ed Schafer stumbled when he endorsed a candidate in the hotly contested Republican primary contest for governor. With only a few weeks to go at the helm of UND, the former governor, former U.S. secretary of agriculture, former fish farm...

FARGO -- The age factor in the presidential campaign has turned out to be no factor at all. The three candidates left standing are, in popular parlance, senior citizens. They qualify for Social Security and Medicare benefits. They are grandparents. Should he win, Donald Trump would...

Two men were shot and killed at a Williston apartment complex last Tuesday morning. On the afternoon of Sunday, April 30, a man was hit by a stray bullet while sitting in his mobile home in Dickinson’s Heartland Village. On Nov. 30, 2014, a man was shot and killed in the parking...

Press sports editor Colton Pool is one of five nominees for the North Dakota Sportswriter of the Year award, given annually to honor excellence in sports media by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. The NSSA has branches in 49 states and the District of Columbia,...

FARGO - Now that petition signatures have been validated, North Dakotans have about a year to think about the fate of the state’s restrictive anti-corporate farming law. The 2015 Legislature modified the law to allow corporation investments in hog and dairy operations, but the law...

If there was any doubt that North Dakota has a long way to go to catch up to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on marriage equality, it was dispelled by remarks from a first-term Valley City legislator. Republican Rep. Dwight Kiefert, responding to the court’s historic decision,...

FARGO -- A lawsuit challenging North Dakota’s adoption of new education standards is rooted in an out-of-state organization’s campaign to derail Common Core, no matter the damage caused. The suit features a not-too-clever facade of local origination because plaintiffs include...

We all know a person who speaks from the heart, not necessarily from the head. We know that person can be offensive and brash. We also know that although sometimes difficult, he stimulates conversation and creates good debate. It’s good to have a friend like that. And it’s also...

A rock-solid Republican state, North Dakota still has two well-known vestiges from its short period of socialist rule: the Bank of North Dakota, and the State Mill and Elevator in Grand Forks. With the 100th anniversaries of the state mill and bank fast approaching, it’s safe to...

Williston is moving to spruce up what arguably has been, until recently, a rather shabby downtown. The western oil country city could learn from Fargo’s experience with a downtown renaissance zone. Williston established a renaissance zone, but its development success has been uneven,...