I grew up in the 1950’s on a farm located between the communities of Heimdal and Wellsburg. I went to grade school in Wellsburg which is about 14 miles south of Esmond and about the same distance north east of Harvey.

Five families from Devils Lake, ND, are receiving Welcome Home kits filled with household essentials through the Bremer Bank Home For Good initiative. Made possible by Bremer’s partnership with Greater Twin Cities United Way, the collaboration will provide 750 Welcome Home kits to families and individuals transitioning from homelessness to stable housing, including those who experience socioeconomic and/or racial disparities, throughout Bremer Bank’s footprint in Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin.

Well, just like clockwork - winter in North Dakota is here. The season when our vehicles refuse to start, our eyelashes and sinus infections freeze, and every step outside becomes a frightening journey on nature’s slip-and-slide. Forget risky things like high-speed car chases or skiing off a jagged mountain top that only a helicopter can fly you to. The real drama is watching folks navigate icy parking lots right here on the North Dakota prairie!

Like many young rural people, broadcast journalist Cory Hepola left his small hometown of Perham, Minn., looking for bigger city success. He landed in Fargo and then bounced around the country with broadcasting gigs in Montana, New York and Texas.

Have you ever been darkhouse spearfishing for pike? It’s relatively new compared to most outdoor recreation, having started a mere 25 years ago, but for those who have taken the opportunity it’s hard to compare.

James B Wentz, March 23, 1943 – Dec. 9, 2024, was born in Benson County. He was the seventh of fifteen children of Nick and Catherine (Scherr) Wentz. He grew up on a farm near Minnewaukan, ND.

Grand Forks, N.D. - Altru is pleased to announce Candelaria Martin-Arndt, MD, has been awarded Physician of the Quarter. Dr. Martin-Arndt is a family medicine physician who also practices obstetrics at Altru Clinic – Devils Lake.

North Dakota Outdoors

To the Eastern Dakota people the white tail deer was their most important source of protein.