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Five years ago, the drive from Dickinson to Williston was considered boring by some and peaceful by others. Western North Dakota's quiet beauty and emptiness, accentuated by Theodore Roosevelt National Park's North Unit, surrounded dying towns such as Grassy Butte, Arnegard and Alexander. Today,...

Trash and littering are becoming hot topics in western North Dakota. Just about anywhere you look, there are plastic bags and paper stuck in fences and sitting in ditches, or beer cans and bottles that have been dropped in random spots. McKenzie and Williams counties in the much...

Columnist John Grogan was onto something when he started writing columns about his crazy Labrador retriever named Marley. Like most people who have seen the movie "Marley and Me," I laughed and even got choked up by watching the antics of the crazy dog that inspired the former newspaper...

Ask anyone who knows me well and they'll tell you that if I wouldn't have pursued a career in journalism, I would most likely have gravitated toward the subject of history -- particularly, 20th century America. I'm absolutely fascinated by stories of the Great Depression, World War...

Two weeks ago an event transpired that we could have never foreseen. When my wife and I received the news, we knew things probably wouldn't end well, but we held out hope. Thirty three hours after we received word that our daughter and her friends were missing, we found out what...

Dickinson State freshman volleyball player Jennifer Hartman has been named Dakota Athletic Conference freshman of the year. Hartman, an outside hitter from Miles City, Mont., finished with 183 kills, 75 blocks and 183 digs as the Blue Hawks finished 5-22.

FARGO - This year's boys basketball state championship game was what Class B is all about. Remember, Saturday night's game between big-school Grafton and smaller Turtle Lake-Mercer would not have been possible without the current two-class system.