USDA upheaval brings uncertainty to farmers, rural communities
Trump administration funding terminations, freezes and layoffs are keeping some North Dakota farmers and rural nonprofits from continuing USDA and other federally funded projects.
2025 ASSA Intercollegiate Club Rifle National Championships Results
The 2025 ASSA Intercollegiate Club Rifle National Championships were held over March 21 and 22, 2025.
The Lake Region Figure Skating Club Presents
The 79th Annual Ice Show for the Lake Region Figure Skating Club was titled “Broadway on Ice” and it was presented March 15 and 16, 2025, at the Burdick Arena.
Warden Stories with Ken Skuza
Like many growing up hunting, fishing and trapping, my memories of our North Dakota game wardens were my first exposure to natural resource law enforcement. In LaMoure, it was Harold Bellin. In Valley City, Delbert Tibke. Prior to becoming a game warden myself, I rode along with Ken Skuza who took me under his wing and helped mentor me in my first post at Bottineau.
Missing college student Renzo Bullhead’s family issues statement thanking tribes and others for help
The Spirit Lake Tribe, along with other tribes in the state, are helping in the efforts to find 20-year-old college student Renzo Bullhead. Bullhead has been missing since March 16.
District 9 Democrats to hold Reorganization Meeting
LEEDS, ND - The District 9 Democratic-NPL party will hold a meeting to elect new leaders and set a course for the future.
Message from Garcia: The Heyoka Part 2
(The first part of this story ran in the Tuesday, March 11 Devils Lake Journal on page 5. This second part was supposed to run on Tuesday, March 18, but I forgot about it. Please accept my apology that it is a week later than I had planned - Louise Oleson, Editor DLJ)
Doug Darling, retiring from LRSC, receives award
Lake Region State College President Doug Darling has been selected for the Michael Bennett Lifetime Achievement Award from Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society.
A Message from Garcia: Dakota Clowns Heyoka
This Message is not about Clowns as we think of them in our modern context. I am talking about men who dream of the Thunder (Wakinyan), who are guided by the Thunders in a dream, what they must do. If they did not do what they were told by the Thunder Beings, they would be killed with Lighting (Wakanhdi) during a thunderstorm (Wakinyan bdoza). I was able long ago to interview two men who were Clowns (Heyoka). I was not bold enough to ask them details of their dreams, so this account is through their interviews, watching their performances, and with other added accounts. I also read about the Dakota Heyoka in books which are listed in the bibliography.