The National Weather Service has declared that dozens of counties in the region – at least two thirds of North Dakota and approximately the entire northern half of Minnesota – will be in an extreme cold warning from 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 18, through noon Tuesday, Jan. 21.

Extreme cold could expose residents of several states to conditions like hypothermia and frostbite over the weekend.

The NWS extreme cold warning for Duluth said: "The dangerously cold wind chills as low as 40 below zero could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 10 minutes. Frostbite and hypothermia will occur if unprotected skin is exposed to these temperatures. An extended period of freezing temperatures could cause ruptured water pipes."

Additionally, a winter weather advisory is set for dozens of counties in eastern North Dakota and northern Minnesota.

The Supreme Court has upheld a North Dakota state House district on an American Indian reservation, rejecting a challenge by local Republican officials.

North Dakota's legislative session opened with the usual speeches and the use of a 115-year-old silver punchbowl once used on a battleship.

VERMILLION, S.D. — Jacari White scored a career-high 32 points in North Dakota State’s Summit League victory over South Dakota on Saturday before 2,001 at the Sanford Coyote Sports Center. White hit 10 of 13 field goals, including five 3-pointers, and he hit all seven of his free throw attempts.

North Dakota is seeing a population surge as newcomers from South Dakota, Montana, Minnesota and Texas migrate in. The state hit a record high of nearly 800,000 people last July, according to new stats from the U.

The Digital Trust Workforce Inclusion Program (DT-WIP), through a partnership between ISACA and the Fargo Moorhead West Fargo Chamber, is expanding this year’s reach to include North Dakota and Northwest/North Central Minnesota.

Alex Bump scored two goals for No. 4 Western Michigan in a 5-1 win over North Dakota on Saturday night in Grand Forks, N.D.

The plates would have a black background and white letters and numbers, similar to what the State of Minnesota rolled out last year.

Tulane at Temple, 1 p.m. La Salle at UMass, 2 p.m. Rice at FAU, 1 p.m. Memphis at Charlotte, 3 p.m. Youngstown St. at Green Bay, 1 p.m.