North Dakota just might not be the best place to breed famous people. One could argue that the state has a culture where self-aggrandizement is discounted, Burin said.

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - North Dakota and its people have a storied history that journalists, authors and historians have written about. One of them, Curtis Eriksmoen, was recently awarded the ...

Handsome and suave, with clear blue eyes and wavy blond hair, he embodies the elegance and sophistication of the 1920s — worlds away from a desolate farm in rural North Dakota.

Some big names have come out of the state of North Dakota, such as Carson Wentz and Josh Duhamel, but there are some other famous names out there who had ties to the state. Here are a few ...

Most everybody knows of area people who became famous entertainers: North Dakota’s Lawrence Welk and Peggy Lee and Minnesota’s Judy Garland and The Andrews Sisters, for instance. But how many ...

But North Dakota winters were as hard then as they are now, and he was crushed by a sudden frost. The costs he racked up on farming equipment left him $80,000 in debt (in 1916 dollars). He was ...

At the end of a feverish fifth year, it's easy to paint North Dakota's oil portrait by numbers: Production is inching toward a million barrels a day, up seven times what it was in 2008. Thousands ...