
North Dakota


Watford City School Teaching D.A.R.E.
Scaring kids to not do drugs or drink alcohol used to be the main message of Drug Abuse Resistance Education or D.A.R.E., but things have changed over the last 30 years. D.A.R.E was founded in 1983 to educate students about drugs and alcohol to prevent them from ever...
D.A.R.E Program to Return to Dunn County Schools
The D.A.R.E. program will return to local schools again this fall. Rebecca Merryfield, of the Dunn County Sheriff’s Office, recently graduated from the D.A.R.E program put on by the South Dakota Law Enforcement Academy. She was one of 25 officers from across...
Watford City PD Combats Underage Drug and Alcohol Problem
WATFORD CITY, N.D. – The Watford City Police Department says they’ve seen increase in underage alcohol, tobacco, and narcotic use in the area. Officers are now working to combat that problem using a program that has been proven to work in some of the...
School Resource Officer Connects with Students
Brandon Stockie serves as one of Dickinson Public School’s D.A.R.E. officers as well as the district’s school resource officer. In the few years School Resource Officer Sgt. Brandon Stockie has been on the job, no student has brought a gun to school....
D.A.R.E. Makes a Return to District 1
School Resource Officer Heather Montgomery talks to students at Bakken Elementary on Thursday about the dangers of alcohol, drugs and violence as part of the D.A.R.E. program. D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) has made a return to the Williston Public School...