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Here is the average Social Security payment in each US state in 2025
For millions of Americans, income from Social Security is not just a supplement, but a determining factor in retirement. In fact, according to a recent Bankrate survey, 77% of current retirees in the U.S. rely on this income to cover their basic...

2025 Wake Forest Football Preview: Coaching Staff
It is not really a secret that July is the worst month of the college sports calendar. We are close enough to college football to start getting excited about it, but still far enough away that it seems like it may never get here. With all this...

Celebrating Excellence: 2025 Prairie Business Leaders & Legacies honorees announced
This month, we celebrate the 2025 Leaders & Legacies award recipients. Prairie Business received a number of impressive nominations for this honor as well as nominations from our staff. Career accomplishments and highlights were considered, as...

Sanford doctor's travel photography displayed in airport art exhibition
FARGO — Since he moved to the area in 1990, Dr. David Clardy has been helping heal hearts as a cardiologist at Sanford Health. Today, he's also an accomplished photographer who has traveled the world capturing everything from Cambodian temples to...
Legal Docket: Redefining marriage
Editor's note: The following text is a transcript of a podcast story. To listen to the story, click on the arrow beneath the headline above. NICK EICHER, HOST: It’s The World and Everything in It for this 7th day of July, 2025. We’re so glad...

Dakota Classic opens over weekend
The Dakota Classic Modified Tour & Stock Car Tour kicked off over the weekend at Jamestown Speedway ahead of the statewide tour. Opening night of the tour took place in Jamestown on Saturday, July 5 and featured 60 IMCA Modified cars and 45 IMCA...

Following the facts on child well-being
(Children’s Defense Fund) – Earlier this month, the Annie E. Casey Foundation released its 2025 edition of the KIDS COUNT Data Book, an annual resource that measures national and state data on economic well-being, education, health and family and...
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Why measles cases have hit a 33-year high in the US
The United States is facing its most severe measles outbreak in over three decades, with 1,277 confirmed infections recorded so far this year across 38 states and Washington, DC, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for...
President Donald Trump's approval rating by state as of July 2025
President Donald Trump's second term as commander in chief of the United States moves past the Fourth of July holiday on a whirlwind of headlines, including the strike on Iran and, most recently, the sweeping domestic policy bill. Each instance...

Let’s pray for great national reawakening
Getting ready for the great celebration next year of America’s 250th anniversary, Gallup serves up sobering data. Per polling just released by Gallup, only 58% of Americans now say they are “extremely proud” or “very proud” to be an American. When...

Evanston doctor researches role of dads within family and impact on child health
Sign up for our free newsletters to have Evanston news delivered directly to your inbox! Craig Garfield is a board-certified pediatrician who lives in Evanston with his wife, who is also a board-certified pediatrician. He is a physician-scientist...

Minnesota assassination prompts many lawmakers to wonder: Is service worth the danger?
A year into her first term in office, New Jersey Assemblywoman Sadaf Jaffer decided not to run for reelection. The political world saw her as a rising star in 2023; Jaffer, a Democrat, previously served as the nation’s first female Muslim mayor....

Exploring History: Stanwood-Camano summers shaped a community through celebration
By the late 1880s, many Euro-Americans who had settled in the Stillaguamish Valley and on Camano Island began taking time out for a variety of summertime celebrations. Festivities honoring Independence Day were some of the first events that...

NDSU student races from campus to Daytona and back
FARGO — A race car that’s hit some of the nation’s biggest tracks made a pit stop at North Dakota State University on Friday, June 27. ARCA driver Bryce Haugeberg, 21, brought his NDSU-wrapped No. 11 car to the university’s Memorial Union, giving...

It's been a stressful summer for Bison athletic administrators
FARGO — It’s turning toward the middle of the summer and the athletic director at North Dakota State was smack dab into an NCAA-sized workload on a Friday afternoon. Welcome to an administrative juggling act, Matt Larsen. Not since the Bison went...

New boating law will impact water sports in Minnesota as weather warms
GRAND FORKS – A new boating law went into effect in Minnesota last week and will have an impact on boating for the remainder of the summer. Boat operators in Minnesota born in June 2004 or after are now required to have taken the boater’s safety...

Our opinion: Beware of setting a precedent in the many-layered mural controversy
The dispute surrounding a mural on an outside wall at the North Dakota School for the Blind – one that was done without approval from the city – has become a multi-layered onion of controversy. As reported by the Herald , the School for the Blind...

Measles has not yet gone away in Ohio
Though an outbreak in Ohio appears to have subsided since the spring, outbreaks of measles are still popping up all over the country. The summer break does not seem to have slowed the spread of this dangerous disease. Canada and Mexico are...

Dickinson's Dave Michaelson joins National Coaches Hall of Fame
DICKINSON — Tuesday, June 24 was a memorable night for Dave Michaelson. He was inducted into the National Coaches Hall of Fame, four years removed from being inducted into the North Dakota High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame ( NDHSCA )...
CA school budgets in disarray after Trump freezes federal funding
Panic has set in at school districts across the Golden State as the Trump administration continues to withhold federal funds. Tony Thurmond, state superintendent of public instruction, said California school districts stand to immediately lose...