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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA NEWS UND law faculty head to Norway to give students new perspectives on law and jurisprudence
It's an international education on what's legal, what isn't By Juan Miguel Pedraza, University & Public Affairs Writer ...
Posted on 5/20/13 at 9:46 AM
STAFF BLOG CAPITOL CHATTER Political notebook: Gun debate set to return to Minnesota Capitol
By Don Davis Call it Gun Week 2 in the Minnesota Legislature. The Senate Judiciary Committee plans Thursday and Friday meetings on bills written to curb gun violence. Senate Majority Leader Tom Bak...
Posted on 2/15/13 at 4:51 PM
LIKE A FISH OUT OF FARGO Norwegian For A Night: A Norsk Christmas Dinner At The Kringen Lodge
I may not be ethnically Scandinavian, but feel just as Scandinavian as most any Scandinavian. As I've mentioned in previous posts, I was adopted from South Korea by a Scandinavian family when I was a...
Posted on 12/3/12 at 8:37 AM
OH LOOK, A SHINY THING! Lutefisk and Other Questionable Food-Like Substances
I wrote a story about a great local lutefisk supper in a mostly serious way, but I also wrote some extremely silly fake headlines for it that we obviously didn't use.* Here's the real headline: Lots ...
Posted on 10/3/12 at 2:35 PM
IT'S SIMPLY GRAND! Tater time for tots and adults
This year marks the 47th Anniversary of a Greater Grand Forks tradition known as Potato Bowl USA. This week (September 3-8) will be full of entertaining events centered around our region's most popula...
Posted on 9/5/12 at 12:48 PM
MARILYN HAGERTY: Traditions of Norwegian settlers still strong around Northwood
This week, I heard about an 82-year-old woman over at Northwood, N.D., who has spent every Christmas of her life in the same house about two miles southwest of town near the Goose River. She’s Arlayne Thingelstad Gylten, and she’s all set for 21 family members to sit down for dinner on Christmas Eve.
By Marilyn Hagerty , December 22, 2011
Women from Libera, Yemen accept Nobel Peace Prize 
Three women who fought injustice, dictatorship and sexual violence in Liberia and Yemen accepted the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize today, calling on repressed women worldwide to rise up against male supremacy.
By Bjoern H. Amland and Louise Nordstrom , December 10, 2011
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Minnesota's Bancroft, Norway's Arnesen plan South Pole expedition in 2012
Minnesota-based explorer Ann Bancroft and her polar trekking partner Liv Arnesen of Norway will be hitting the ice again, leading a 2012 expedition with six other women from six continents on an 800-mile, 80-day ski trek to the South Pole.
By Richard Chin , October 25, 2011
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Norway's Statoil to buy Texas-based Brigham, including N.D. oil holdings, for $4.4 billion
Norwegian oil company Statoil ASA said today it has agreed to buy Texas-based Brigham Exploration Co. for $4.4 billion in cash, giving it control of fields in North Dakota.
By Associated Press , October 17, 2011
Norway royalty in Duluth today
On Sunday, the king and queen attended a church service at Augsburg College in Minneapolis and a reception at Gov. Mark Dayton's official residence.
By Associated Press , October 17, 2011
Duluth's Norwegian influence to be visible during Monday's royal visit
When King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway visit Duluth on Monday, they’ll never be far from signs of their homeland. It's thanks to northeast Minnesota's reputation as a land of opportunity years ago.
By John Lundy , October 15, 2011
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King Harald, Queen Sonja of Norway get curtsey to begin 8-day tour of Minnesota, Iowa
Four-year-old Bergen Gandrud Pickett, named for the Norwegian city, greeted the king and queen with a curtsey and a bouquet of flowers outside the Saint Paul Hotel Tuesday evening.
By Kim Ode , October 12, 2011
Old 'Rosa' getting royal audience: Grand Forks native to play 200-year-old Hardanger fiddle for Norway's king, queen
VIDEO: Scroll to bottom of article to hear Hardanger fiddle musicMegan Peterson, a 2008 graduate of Grand Forks Central High School, was 12 years old when she attended a music camp and first heard someone playing a Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. On Friday, Peterson, now a 21-year-old senior in music at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., will play a 200-year-old Hardanger fiddle rescued from a Midwestern barn for some special visitors: Norway’s King Harald V and Queen Sonja.
By Chuck Haga , October 11, 2011
ROYAL VISIT: Norway's king and queen travel Upper Midwest following footsteps of ancestors
The country that Norway’s King Harald V and Queen Sonja will represent this week as they visit the Upper Midwest has changed substantially since Norwegian emigrants left for America in great numbers in the late 1800s.
It is a different Norway from the nation Harald’s father, King Olav V, represented when he last toured “Norwegian America” in 1987, just four years before his death.
By Chuck Haga , October 08, 2011
Nobel Peace Prize goes to women's rights activists
VIDEO: Watch at bottom of articleThe Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to three champions of women's rights in Africa and the Middle East today in an attempt to bolster the role of women in struggles to bring democracy to nations suffering from autocratic rule and civil strife.
By Bjoern H. Amland and Karl Ritter , October 07, 2011
VIDEO: Folk trio from Norway to play Monday in Grand Forks
VIDEO: Watch at bottom of articleGeitungen, a folk music trio from Norway, will perform at 7 p.m. Monday at the Gyda Varden Sons of Norway Lodge in Grand Forks, playing tunes from its home area Rogaland.
By Herald Staff Report , September 27, 2011
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Intense fire on Norwegian cruise ship kills 2 crew
Two people were killed and at least nine injured today in a fire on a cruise liner operating on a popular route along Norway's craggy coast, officials said.
By Bjoern H. Amland , September 15, 2011
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Confessed Norway attacker back on island for reconstruction
Police said today they took Anders Behring Breivik back to the island of Utoya for a Saturday hearing about the July 22 terror attacks, when Breivik shot the victims dead on the lake island near Oslo after killing another eight people in the capital with a bomb. The 32-year-old described the killings in close detail during an eight-hour tour on the island with up to a dozen police, a prosecutor said.
By Bjoern H. Amland and Malin Rising , August 14, 2011
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Norway’s king, queen will visit Minnesota in October
Norway’s King Harald and Queen Sonja plan an official visit to the United States this fall, including stops in Minnesota and Iowa but not North Dakota. The royal visit, from Oct. 11 to Oct. 22, will allow the king and queen to meet with state and local government officials in Minnesota and Iowa and visit Norwegian-American communities and institutions there.
By Chuck Haga , August 13, 2011
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