Oct 2016
- City, county sales continue downward spiral
- City okays $61 million budget
- Commission, sheriff tackle lack of trust at final budget review
- Judge dismisses mineral rights case
- Keene FD grows under Rolfsrud
- Oil royalties tied up in alleged state land grab
- Autumn rains welcome to ag, bad for roads
- Building awareness, battling cancer
Sep 2016
- Rough Rider Center opens
- Commission reverses legal defense fund bill approval
- Highway 85 work, lights to be finished in Nov.
- Most county taxpayers will see little change in taxes
- Oil production ‘essentially flat’
- Steady time for local housing
- Deputy back at work
- Sheriff awaiting audit results on receipt book
- Humvees’ purchase draws dispute
- New Rough Rider Center to fill community’s recreation needs
- Heritage Day kicks off area’s autumn
- Audit finds money missing from Sheriff’s Office
- Sneak preview planned for new Rough Rider Center
- Watford City’s mayor won’t resign before Nov. 8 election
- Advanced TENORM levels found in landfill
Aug 2016
- County, school face discrimination complaints
- Rocking Watford City
- Stolen pork chops turns nasty
- Alexander readies for Old Settlers’ Day
- Another enrollment record
- Rodenbiker resigns as State’s Attorney
- County continues 911 talks
- Mold strikes courthouse
- Oil production likely to drop to 900,000 daily barrels
- Owner, worker face arson, insurance fraud charges in fire
- Sheriff wins hearing as attorney points to courthouse turmoil
- Watford schools poised to see record enrollment
- 20 teams get Ribfest cooking
- Construction of new healthcare facility begins
- County residents taking their concerns over radioactive waste to Bismarck
- Safety is main concern for four-laning U.S. 85
- State loans Arnegard $380K for lagoons
Jul 2016
- County weighs new 911 dispatch
- ‘Pokemon Go’ grabs locals with easy leisure
- Agencies sign agreements for sexual assault services
- Sanford wins Emergency Responder of the Year
- ‘Bouncing along bottom,’ oil production sees resistance
- Support of the police is strong throughout Watford City
- Locals rally around law enforcement
- VIPs to judge Best of the West Ribfest
- Capturing aslice of McKenzie County
- Fair ready to shine after cleanup