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News Minute: Here is the latest North Dakota news from The Associated Press

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Most residents of Cavalier are going back home but are being told they might have to leave again if conditions get worse. The water behind Renwick Dam on the Tongue River west of the city is dropping and the threat is easing. But hospital patients and residents of a nursing home and assisted living facility still can't return.

CAVALIER, N.D. (AP) - Dozens of National Guard soldiers from around North Dakota are helping out because of the flooding problems in Pembina County. Troops have been working rotating 12-hour shifts to support Cavalier.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - The Burleigh County Commission has agreed to give Midwest Manufacturing a 50% property tax break for three years for a manufacturing plant it plans to build in McKenzie Township. The Menards subsidiary plans a $7.5 million investment. It wanted a full tax break for two years and a 50% break for three years.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - The state Board of Higher Education has revised a tuition rate plan it passed just a few weeks ago. The revised plan would keep tuition increases between about two percent and about five percent. It would require 6 of the 11 colleges to find cost savings to meet their budgets.

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