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Where were the cheapest places to fill up on diesel in cities in Pembina County in week ending May 31?
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Allison Clements | www.ferc.govFederal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Allison Clements | www.ferc.gov There was a single gas station in cities across Pembina County selling...

Oconomowoc Scholarship Fund announces 2025 award recipients
Since its founding in 1947, the Oconomowoc Scholarship Fund has awarded over $4 million in scholarships to 715 deserving scholars. This was made possible through the unwavering generosity of local community leaders, businesses, and organizations...

SDSU Extension hosts successful Energize conference in Platte
BROOKINGS, S.D. – South Dakota State University Extension hosted a successful Energize conference in Platte with 150 attendees. Energize, an annual community development conference, was held May 6-7, 2025, and drew 150 attendees. Peggy Schlechter,...

War waged on small-town, property values
On Saturday, the Connecticut legislature passed a bill, H.B. 5002, which should be called the Destroy Connecticut Towns Act. It’s headed to Gov. Ned Lamont’s desk for signature. The new law dictates how many low-income and moderate-income...

Cheapest regular gas in cities across Towner County in week ending May 31
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Allison Clements | www.ferc.govFederal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Allison Clements | www.ferc.gov There was a single gas station in cities across Towner County selling...

You Never Know Who You'll Run Into 1,919 Miles From Bismarck
Last week I took a small vacation and went to see my nephew graduate from college I have to be honest, I'm not much for travelling, probably because I fear flying so much. Sometimes you just have to suck it up though and realize a fact : it's...

Measles Vaccination Rates Dropped After COVID Pandemic
FILE - Vials for the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine are displayed at a clinic in Lubbock, Texas, on Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon, File) Childhood vaccination rates against measles fell in the years after the COVID-19 pandemic in nearly...

Home Depot is selling a ‘chill’ tiny home for just $22,999 – it comes pre-assembled to ‘save on cost’
HOME Depot is selling an epic tiny home for less than $23,000 and it even comes pre-assembled. So not only will you “save on costs” thanks to this tiny but mighty property, but you also won’t have to worry about setting time aside for installation...

Mark Joseph Chechack
?????????? STONINGTON — Mark Joseph Chechack, 60, of Stonington, passed away June 1, 2025 do to injuries suffered from an automobile accident. He was born July 27, 1964 in Mount Clemens, Michigan to John and Barbara (Crawford) Chechack He grew up...

Plastic Is Back In National Parks As Biden’s Ban On Single Use Plastics Is Upended By Trump Administration
America watches as President Trump continues to make changes within the U.S. government, and that includes rules surrounding the country's national parks. Once the Governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum is now Interior Secretary, working with...

Measles reported in South Dakota as vaccination rate declines
By Jay RoeThe Brookings Register BROOKINGS — For the second straight year, measles has arrived in South Dakota. The state health department announced Monday that a Meade County adult had tested positive. “We did have a case in 2024, and that was a...

$244 billion a year: The cost of Canadian wildfire crossing borders across US?
If any Canadian import should be tariffed out of existence, it’s one that President Donald Trump couldn’t tax even if he wanted to: wildfire smoke. Unfortunately, it’s a product in increasing and borderless abundance across North America and the...

Conservation Conundrum
On a brisk winter day in February 2019, then-provincial wildlife veterinarian Helen Schwantje and Chris Proctor, senior wildlife biologist with the province, travelled with a team of volunteers and a film crew into the remote valley of Ward Creek,...

Truly Fascinating Places You Won’t Believe Are in the United States
The United States has it all — an Arctic and tropical coastline and every environment known to humans within. Therefore, we should never be surprised by its potential to surprise us. Roadtrippers and vacationists alike make a habit of scouring the...
Canadian wildfires kill 2 and force over 33,000 to evacuate so far
Wildfires in Sherridon, Manitoba, Canada on Tuesday, May 27, 2025 [AP Photo/Manitoba government]The ongoing 2025 Canadian wildfire season has erupted into a devastating crisis that underscores the inability of capitalist governments to protect...

Gardner man killed in motorcycle crash on Sunday
DUNN COUNTY, N.D. (KFYR) - A 71-year-old man from Gardner has died after a one-vehicle motorcycle accident north of Killdeer. The driver was traveling on Highway 22 Sunday afternoon in Dunn County when he missed a curve in the road. Police say the...

Cheapest diesel in cities across Wells County in week ending May 31
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Allison Clements | www.ferc.govFederal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Allison Clements | www.ferc.gov There was a single gas station in cities across Wells County selling...

Measles vaccination rates drop in U.S. after COVID-19 pandemic
Childhood vaccination rates against measles fell in the years after the COVID-19 pandemic in nearly 80% of the more than 2,000 U.S. counties with available data -- including in states that are battling outbreaks this year. A Johns Hopkins...
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Dilly Dally the sea turtle returns to the ocean after flipper amputation JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly Dally is back in the Atlantic Ocean, months after having a front flipper amputated at a Florida turtle...

Parts of US brace for 'dirty rain' as massive airborne threat chokes multiple states TODAY
A massive plume of dust the size of the US is set to drop buckets of mud from the sky on the entire Southeast. The approaching dust cloud is coming from the Sahara Desert and was formed by strong winds sweeping tiny sand and mineral particles off...