John Ross was a college student who helped dig out the train that got stuck in snow outside of New Salem, North Dakota, during the March 1966 blizzard. John was digging snow when photographer Dennis ...

Sure, it's May, but Neighbors is still catching up with mail concerning past winter storms, although the way the winter has dragged on, maybe it's not so inappropriate today to recall the infamous ...

Now that we're officially in the warmth of the summer season, let's cool off a bit with an update on a past Neighbors column about the March 1966 blizzard and how it affected trains in the area. That ...

Parts of the Plains are experiencing blizzard conditions today, but that's nothing compared to what happened almost 60 years ago. On March 4, 1966, the Northern Plains, particularly the Dakotas, was ...

Here we are “In the Bleak Mid-Winter,” as Christina Rossetti wrote, and we have plenty of time to think about past winters and how we dealt with the snow, wind and cold temperatures. Most of us are ...

Do you recognize either of these women or their children from this Herald photo, which appeared in the newspaper on March 8, 1966? The Grand Forks Herald is attempting to contact them for a story. And ...

Here are some highlights of the storm, as documented in the book “One to Remember: The Relentless Blizzard of March 1966.” Five people died in North Dakota during the blizzard, including two young ...

Over the next three days, the National Weather Service’s Bismarck office is recreating the 1966 blizzard. The agency has a special report about the blizzard on its ...