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Explore North Dakota’s $15 billion Legacy Fund, hear Tom Isern reflect on the Great Plains’ past, and learn how smart appliances and battery-backed cooktops work.

Playwright Abigail C.K. Lill adapts North Dakota stories into plays; Michael Howe explains voting and election security; Solo’s Skyr serves Icelandic-inspired fare.

ND electric co-ops weigh data center growth; Harvest Public Media examines wolves and livestock; and on MN Reads, author Andrew Wittkop revisits two overlooked literary lives.

Hunters face deer season changes amid EHD; lawmakers weigh data center rules; George Peck examines Tesla’s flying Roadster; Tom Isern recalls prairie Halloween mischief.

Prairie Plates visits a new Fargo coffee shop; Prairie Beat looks at two ballot measures; and One Book, One Community hosts The Birth of Loud author Ian S. Port.

Food banks face rising hunger; Halloween pranks reveal history; school meals face cost pressures; guests discuss Prohibition fiction and Indigenous hunting traditions.

Ray auditor Ronda Rustad on public service and her award; VCSU’s Dennis McCulloch on women’s flag football; and Gateway to Science’s interactive power-grid exhibit.

A permanent oil tax break faces scrutiny; Theater B’s Frankenstein explores humanity and creation; and Tech With Peck examines data centers’ promises and costs.

Prairie Plates visits Blackbird and The Bird; Prairie Beat follows a 480-mile relay supporting grieving families; farmers assess drought, markets and rising costs.

In Part 2 from TeddyCon, Craig Blumenshine moderates historians on presidential biography and public memory; Tom Isern explores why prairie communities are seen as past their prime.

At TeddyCon, Craig Blumenshine talks with historians Kathleen Dalton, Lindsay Chervinsky and Stacy Cordery about presidential biography and how it shapes our view of history.

North Dakota tests Roughrider Coin for faster bank transactions, and George Peck explains how AI agents could transform daily life and work.

Deputy Secretary Kyle Haustveit on U.S. and ND energy; Prairie Plates visits Mount Everest Kitchen; Prairie Beat examines rising aid costs; and Tom Isern finds hope in Gen Z.

Jack Russell Weinstein examines moral responsibility in the Clancy trial, while Amy Dalrymple previews North Dakota races, ballot measures and voting essentials.

Fargo VA Director Brent Pharis discusses veterans’ care and access, while Dr. Jon Solberg shares lessons in endurance and leadership from Greenland’s ice.

George Peck shares bookmark-worthy websites. Plus, the Monitor examines a candidate lawsuit, a major Cass County data center and its 2026 voter guide.

Drekker's Oktoberfest, UND's Title IX sexual violence support and investigation procedures, and key 2027 Medicare plan updates to review.

Explore North Dakota’s Carnegie library legacy, the roots of Great Plains identity and why drought-tolerant sorghum could be a crop for a hotter future.

AARP’s John Hishta examines older voters’ concerns ahead of the midterms, while Shane Mendez shares his journey through trauma, addiction, recovery and teaching at UND.

North Dakota court politics and a development fund audit, smart TV privacy, and Tom Isern on chokecherry-picking traditions across the northern Plains.

Explore fall color at Icelandic and Pembina Gorge, visit Fargo’s Growing Together gardens, and hear how a super El Niño could shape North Dakota’s winter.

THC beverage rules reshape plans for N.D. brewers, plus prairie berry traditions, uncertainty over a USDA research lab and ways to enjoy fall outdoors.

An Indiana University researcher explores GLP-1 costs and health policy, while Patriot Assistance Dogs shows how rescued dogs are trained to support veterans at no cost.

A Closer Look with the Monitor examines tribal police training, rising diesel costs for farmers, plus hands-on fall science, AI doomsday warnings and regional news.

Heartview’s Monster Mile supports recovery, Prairie Plates visits an organic Red River Valley farm, and Prairie Beat looks at respiratory virus season.