As the dependency ratio increases, so does potential for concern among communities faced with an older, nonworking population.

NDSU has hired a rural and agribusiness enterprise development specialist.

NDSU’s Kathleen Tweeten has been elected Epsilon Sigma Phi’s north-central region vice president.

Net in-migration indicates that North Dakota brought in 25 percent more first-year students to its colleges and universities than it could have generated from North Dakota resident first-year students.

Carol Goodman of Milton is the recipient of this year’s Joseph A. Chapman Leadership Award.

The Rural Leadership North Dakota program’s fourth class is about to start.

North Dakota’s general trend of out-migration has produced long-term economic consequences.

North Dakota’s housing market is showing a slowdown similar to the national market with successive declines in newly authorized homes since 2006.

A sizeable proportion of North Dakota’s increase in 2007 was due to increases in procurement contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense and crop insurance payments.

North Dakota’s general trend of out-migration has produced long-term economic consequences.

The Horizons program is helping 15 more communities combat poverty and develop leadership.

Along with studies aimed at growing a better plant, researchers in the North Dakota State University Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics have evaluated switchgrass from an economic point of view.

NDSU awarded an $800,000 grant to further develop and commercialize the technology to produce biobased products.

The overall decline in newly authorized housing units in North Dakota between 2006 and 2007 was largely the result of 103 fewer single-family homes authorized for construction.

NDSU students advance to the semifinals of a national marketing competition.

Rural Leadership North Dakota’s class of 2007-09 wraps up its first year.

Our basement storeroom and pantry were wading ponds.