Bismarck is the capital of the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Burleigh County. It is the second-most populous city in North Dakota after Fargo. The city's population was estimated in 2017 at 72,865, while its metropolitan population was 132,142. In 2017, Forbes magazine ranked Bismarck as the seventh fastest-growing small city in the United States.
Grand Forks is the third-largest city in the state of North Dakota and is the county seat of Grand Forks County. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 52,838, while the total of the city and surrounding metropolitan area was 98,461. Grand Forks, along with its twin city of East Grand Forks, Minnesota, forms the center of the Grand Forks, ND-MN Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is often called Greater Grand Forks or the Grand Cities.
John Henry Hoeven III is an American banker and politician serving as the senior U.S. Senator from North Dakota since 2011. A Republican, he served as the 31st Governor of North Dakota from 2000 to 2010. Prior to entering politics, Hoeven was a successful multi-millionaire banker. Hoeven was elected in 2010 to the U.S. Senate, succeeding incumbent Senator Byron L. Dorgan, who chose not to seek reelection. Hoeven became the senior Senator in 2013 after Kent Conrad retired and was replaced by Democrat Heidi Heitkamp, who was once Hoeven's opponent for the Governor's office. Hoeven was reelected in 2016.
The Bismarck Tribune is a daily newspaper with a weekly audience of 82,000 unique readers, printed daily in Bismarck, North Dakota. The Bismarck Tribune is owned by Lee Enterprises. It is the primary daily newspaper for south-central and southwest North Dakota.
The Minot Daily News is a newspaper printed in Downtown Minot, North Dakota. It originated as Burlington Reporter, and was published out of Burlington, then the county seat, until the early 20th century.
The Grand Forks Herald is a daily broadsheet newspaper, established in 1879, published in Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States. It is the primary daily paper for northeast North Dakota and northwest Minnesota. Its average daily circulation is approximately 7,500, in the city of Grand Forks plus about 7,500 more to the surrounding communities. Total circulation includes digital subscribers. It has the second largest circulation in the state of North Dakota.
William Lewis Guy was the governor of the U.S. state of North Dakota from 1961 to 1973. Guy was North Dakota's longest-serving governor in state history, serving two consecutive two-year terms and two four-year terms in office.
Forum Communications Company is a media firm based in Fargo, North Dakota. The company prints a number of newspapers in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Its flagship and namesake is The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead. The company also owns Fargo radio station WDAY-AM 970 and four television stations in North Dakota, all affiliated with ABC. It is owned by the Marcil-Black family of Fargo. N. B. Black bought the Forum in 1917; current chairman William "Bill" Marcil, Sr. is the husband of N. B. Black's great-granddaughter.
The Devils Lake Journal is an American daily newspaper printed in Devils Lake, North Dakota. It is owned by GateHouse Media.
The Miss North Dakota competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of North Dakota in the Miss America pageant. The first Miss North Dakota to compete at Miss America was Kitty Page in 1949. In 2017 Cara Mund became the North Dakotan to win the Miss America title, when she won the Miss America 2018 pageant.
Charles Thurber was a black man lynched in Grand Forks, North Dakota on October 24, 1882. No monument exists at the site of the lynching, which took place on the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway bridge over the Red River between Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota.
The North Dakota Air National Guard is the air force militia of the State of North Dakota, United States of America. It is, along with the North Dakota Army National Guard, an element of the North Dakota National Guard.
Rich Wardner is a Republican member of the North Dakota Senate for the 37th district.
The 2016 United States Senate election in North Dakota was held November 8, 2016, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of North Dakota, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. The primaries were held June 14.
The 2014 United States House of Representatives election in North Dakota was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014, to elect the U.S. Representative from North Dakota's at-large congressional district, who will represent the state of North Dakota in the 114th United States Congress. The election coincided with all other states' House of Representatives elections. Incumbent Republican representative Kevin Cramer, who has served in the seat since 2013, ran for re-election to a second two-year term in office. Cramer is the first Republican congressman to be re-elected in North Dakota since 1978.
The 2018 United States Senate election in North Dakota took place on November 6, 2018, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of North Dakota, concurrent with other states' elections to the United States Senate and other federal, state, and local elections in North Dakota.
The 1965 NCAA College Division football rankings are from the United Press International poll of College Division head coaches and from the Associated Press. The 1965 NCAA College Division football season was the eighth year UPI published a Coaches Poll in what was termed the "Small College" division. It was the sixth year for the AP version of the poll.
Alisa Mitskog is an American politician who, as of 2017, sits in the North Dakota House of Representatives.
