MINOT, North Dakota, Oct. 27 (TNSOps) -- Minot State University issued the following news release: Every year Digi-Key Electronics company, one of the world's largest retailers of electronic components based in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, hosts a programming competition between area schools that offer computer science, software engineering, or computer engineering. Minot State's team of Ben Yang, Keegan Summers, and Ross Hardy competed in this year's competition and brought home second place  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, Oct. 30 -- Gov. Doug Burgum, R-North Dakota, issued the following news on Oct. 29, 2021: Gov. Doug Burgum today issued an executive order convening a special session of the North Dakota Legislature on Nov. 8 to address legislative redistricting, tax relief and strategic investments in infrastructure, workforce, economic development and other priorities. Burgum made the announcement during a press conference at the Capitol with House Majority Leader Chet Pollert and Sena  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, Oct. 30 -- Gov. Doug Burgum, R-North Dakota, issued the following news on Oct. 29, 2021: Gov. Doug Burgum today stressed his support for a legal challenge filed today on behalf of North Dakota and nine other states to the Biden administration's COVID-19 vaccine mandate on federal contractors. North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem joined nine other states - Missouri, Nebraska, Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Montana, New Hampshire, South Dakota and Wyoming - in a lawsuit  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, Oct. 25 -- Gov. Doug Burgum, R-North Dakota, issued the following news: Gov. Doug Burgum today welcomed home about 70 members of Company C of the North Dakota National Guard's 2-285th Aviation Regiment who recently returned home from a nine-month deployment to the National Capital Region during a ceremony at the Guard's Army Aviation Support Facility in Bismarck. The Bismarck-based unit, which operates Black Hawk helicopters, successfully flew 1,300 hours and completed   more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, Oct. 26 -- Gov. Doug Burgum, R-North Dakota, issued the following news on Oct. 25, 2021: Gov. Doug Burgum and First Lady Kathryn Burgum today hosted the fifth Recovery Reinvented, a daylong in-person and online event focused on reinventing recovery through eliminating the stigma of addiction. They were joined by national and state addiction recovery experts, more than 650 in-person attendees and over 3,000 online viewers who spanned across the state and nation, with som  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, Oct. 26 -- Gov. Doug Burgum, R-North Dakota, issued the following news on Oct. 25, 2021: Gov. Doug Burgum and First Lady Kathryn Burgum today shared the results from the North Dakota Addressing Addiction survey at Recovery Reinvented. Dr. Valerie Earnshaw, the study's principal investigator, presented the results to an in-person crowd of about 600 people, with over 1,000 also viewing the event online. North Dakota's Recovery Reinvented Initiative in the Office of the Go  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Oct. 30 -- New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella issued the following statement: * * * Attorney General John M. Formella announces that the State of New Hampshire has joined with the states of Missouri, Nebraska, Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming to file a lawsuit against the federal government for imposing a vaccine mandate on federal contractors and federally contracted employees. In connection with the filing, Attorney G  more

ALBANY, New York, Oct. 27 -- Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-New York, issued the following news release on Oct. 26, 2021: Governor Kathy Hochul today announced that Airtonomy, of Grand Forks, North Dakota, is the $1 million grand prize winner of round five of the GENIUS NY accelerator competition. The year-long GENIUS NY program is the world's largest business competition focused on unmanned systems, cross-connected platforms and other technology-based sectors. Airial Robotics of Hamburg, Germany, CarSca  more