Pembina News

Maybe Allen and Linda Brown are on to something. Maybe what Winnipeg really needs isn't a new rapid-transit corridor but ziplines connecting building to building so you could swing to work every morning like Spiderman.

With Canada Day, the Fourth of July and the summer vacation season coming up, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers remind both Americans and Canadians that there are several steps they can take to cross the border more efficiently.

Carl Ben Eielson - As a member of the Hatton Aero Club, barnstormed around eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota in a club "Jenny" and performed at fairs, baseball games and any place a crowd was willing to watch his acrobatic stunts.

When Major Samuel Wood descended the Red River in July 1849 , he complained while near the Sheyenne River, that his party was "made restive by the mosquitoes ... We camped on the north bank ... during the night, the mosquitoes infested our camp in clouds ... it was impossible to talk without inhaling them" . Later, near the Salt River, Wood wrote, ...

Apart from an opening night cloud buster Friday evening, organizers couldna t have planned for better weather for the Third Annual Street Festival on the Harbourfront, June 19-21. a oeIta s a very busy place,a commented community special events and attractions coordinator Buck Matiowski, as he busily tended to details prior to Saturdaya s open ...

Sinkholes have developed in the Pembina Gorge of northeastern North Dakota along the route of TransCanada Corp.`s Keystone pipeline, and some of them have swallowed pine trees.

Here is the latest North Dakota news from The Associated Press WALHALLA, N.D. Sinkholes have developed in Pembina Gorge along the route where crews drilled to bury a pipeline, and some of the holes have swallowed pine trees.

Aerospace dean recognizes UAS team's flood-fighting efforts; UAS flights help Red River Valley disaster teams assess flood Published in M2 PressWIRE on Wednesday, 17 June 2009 at 11:37 GMT In honor of Gov.

Prosecutors have dropped a charge of possessing a controlled substance that had been filed against a Canadian truck driver arrested at the Pembina border crossing in North Dakota with drugs in February.

It's coming, and it has serious regional economic implications even to smaller communities like Pembina/Emerson/ St.

If you lost your job because of flooding in March, time is running out to apply for disaster unemployment assistance.

PEMBINA, N.D. a ' Federal officials say a teenager was arrested at the Pembina border crossing after officers seized marijuana, marijuana pipes, hashish, marijuana seeds, methamphetamine, prescription drugs and alcohol from the car he was driving.

The trek to Canada for a fishing trip now comes with an extra catch - " a different credential.

A recent Associated Press article states: PEMBINA, N.D. - New technology is being installed at the U.S.-Canada border crossing at Pembina , in northeastern North Dakota.

Canadians are still left without answers as to how a man was able to take 22 vials of biological material from Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg and cross the Manitoba-North Dakota border.

The9 eventually were rescued, and Winrod was sentenced to serve 30 years in prison.

FEMA has expanded disaster assistance to seven more North Dakota counties. The counties are Benson, Cavalier, Eddy, McLean, Pembina, Rolette and Wells.

Here is the latest North Dakota news from The Associated Press Grand Forks , N.D. A Canadian researcher headed for a job in Maryland has been arrested at the Pembina port of entry for attempting to bring biological material into the United States without a permit.

A researcher recently based at Winnipeg's virology laboratory is in police custody in North Dakota after allegedly trying to smuggle vials of an unidentified biological substance into the U.S. from Manitoba.

A researcher at a top-ranked Canadian infectious disease laboratory has been charged with attempting to smuggle vials of biological materials into the United States, Canadian and U.S. officials said Wednesday.