2+ hour, 33+ min ago   (744+ words) WILLISTON, N.D. " Almost 85 years ago, a North Dakota Army National Guard Infantry Regiment made history as the first unit to take offensive action in World War II. Now, a nonprofit organization " the 164th Infantry Remembrance Association " has been created to honor and remember…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (391+ words) Our newsroom occasionally reports stories under a byline of "staff." Often, the "staff" byline is used when rewriting basic news briefs that originate from official sources, such as a city press release about a road closure, and which require little…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (755+ words) PARK RAPIDS, Minn. " Budd Parker and Tim "Pete" Fairbanks are on a mission. For nearly 20 years, they've been identifying, researching and memorializing veterans who were killed in action. The original memorial wall, begun around 2005 or so, was displayed at the…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (1106+ words) FELTON, Minn. " Eighty years ago, in a city long associated with Nazi pageantry and propaganda, German leaders were called to answer for the atrocities of World War II, including the Holocaust. Inside a Nuremberg courtroom, as newsreels rolled, the world…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (580+ words) Today in History revisits the Tuesday, December 22,1942 edition of the Grand Forks Herald and highlights a story on Major Arthur Narum of Fargo, former Cass County Register of Deeds, returning home after commanding the 99th bomber squadron in North Africa. Narum…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago   (233+ words) GRAND FORKS " Culver's restaurant will donate a portion of its sales Tuesday and Friday, Dec. 9 and 12, to the North Dakota/Minnesota Veterans Honor Flight program, which takes veterans on a three-day, all-expenses-paid trip to visit war memorials and other historic…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1241+ words) DETROIT LAKES, Minn. " He may not be able to see or hear very well these days, but that doesn't mean James Ramstad's mind has lost any of the sharpness that made him one of Detroit Lakes' top attorneys, right up…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago   (328+ words) FARGO " Some 200 veterans from the region woke up in their own beds on Wednesday morning, Oct. 1, hours after returning from another incredible Honor Flight trip. For three brothers who grew up on a farm near Rollag, Minnesota, the journey to…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (265+ words) NECHE, N.D. " There were shivers down Roy Paton's spine when he and his wife drove by new signs on the highway from the junction of Highway 5 to the Canada border. The signs, purchased by the Gainer-McAndrew American Legion Post No. 242, bear…...

5+ mon, 2+ day ago   (1008+ words) BISMARCK, N.D. " One hour after agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Harry Taiju Hayashi in February 1942, he was on a train to Fort Lincoln, an internment camp nicknamed "Snow Country Prison." Agents arrested him while his wife, Anna Hayashi,…...