At a City Commission meeting on February 3^rd of this year, the topic of possibly moving the Devils Lake Police Department out of the Lake Region Law Enforcement Center (LRLEC) was proposed. The building that is currently being used houses the Devils Lake Police Department, Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office, Lake Region 911 and Dispatch, and the Lake Region Correctional Facility. The building is 51 years old and is in need of repairs and upgrades.

Medicaid reforms in President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” are unlikely to lead to major challenges for the state’s healthcare system, but implementing new work and eligibility requirements could lead to extra bureaucratic headaches.

Ground was broken recently on the long-awaited Prairie View Elementary School renovations and addition. On Thursday, May 22 (almost 70 years to the day when Prairie View was first built), people gathered to hear from Superintendent Ned Clooten and others speak during the groundbreaking.

With the news from Spirit Lake cautioning residents about drinking water, a number of people have inquired about the safety of Devils Lake’s drinking water supply. So the Journal contacted Mike Grafsgaard from the City of Devils Lake to ask some of those questions.

I was compelled to jot down some interesting numbers that pertain to North Dakota’s outdoors as Jeb Williams, Game and Fish Department director, recently addressed the joint Senate and House Legislative Natural Resource committees.

The Devils Lake City Commission met Monday, May 19 at 5:30 p.m. with a full agenda to cover.

The Sheyenne River forms the south border of the Spirit Lake Reservation. What does the name Sheyenne / Cheyenne have to do with the Spirit Lake Dakota? The answer: on the south bank of this river was a Cheyenne earth lodge village near Lisbon, North Dakota. The Cheyenne people today live in the states of Montana and Oklahoma. The Cheyenne name for these indigenous people is not their official name. Their name for themselves is Tsistsistas (Beautiful People).

If you had told me that when I was in journalism school, I would find myself working for a newspaper in Devils Lake, N.D., I would probably say you’re drunk, crazy, or both. But that’s the funny thing about my life. There are things I never thought I would do that I would wind up doing.

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