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Dear Friend: Thank you for agreeing to take care of my dog. I knew you were the right person for the job when you told me about the summer you...

We sit at kitchen tables, on blankets in the park, around picnic tables at street fairs and on tailgates after a long morning in the field. We...

Early one morning, shortly after moving to Mitchell, my wife and I were awakened by a loud bang outside our window. My wife instantly said, "A...

The other morning, when our 10-year-old granddaughter joined me for a trip to the bank to deposit some checks, the teller surprised us with a...

My brother saved a little boy's life once. The boy was swimming and got out too deep. No one saw him go under except my brother. It happened...

I have a friend who has always reminded our gang, sometimes before the fireworks had faded on the Fourth of July, "Summer's almost over. It sure...

MINOT, N.D.—Minnesota regulators have given Canadian company Enbridge approval to go forward with replacing their Line 3 pipeline. That...

PIERRE — Protecting livestock owners was one reason South Dakota put laws about branding on the books long ago. Protecting landowners against...

FARGO — My greatest fears and life wounds are: the fear of rejection, abandonment, loneliness and failure. Growing up I felt "poor" so...

FARGO — You know how most people look after a vacation? They're rested and golden brown from lazing on the beach. They may be sporting...

Western North Dakota has become many different things to so many different people over the last 10 years of an all out and unprecedented economic...

It's a fine thing to have a barber who knows about fishing, I discovered during a haircut a week or so after the Pierre area hosted a high-powered...

On the southern Illinois dairy farm of my youth, July was a slow, sweet bridge between spring's hard hustle and fall's quickening step. The unofficial...

I wonder if young people get excited when they hear the sound of a train whistle on a dark night. Perhaps I should be wondering if young kids...

PIERRE — Public records are one place where the public comes up short in South Dakota. There was good intention, back in 2009, when the...