• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Residents of North Dakota's capital city will vote in November on a proposed $90 million expansion of the Bismarck Civic Center.
• The City Commission on Tuesday approved ballot language. Residents will be asked to approve a 1.5 percent motel, liquor and restaurant tax and a 1 percent lodging tax to help fund an expansion aimed at increasing the Civic Center's convention business.
• The downtown facility has a large arena that can host about 10,000 people for events ranging from sports to concerts. It also has a separate exhibit hall.
• Local Chamber of Commerce President Kelvin Hullet tells The Bismarck Tribune that Billings, Mont., and the South Dakota cities of Sioux Falls and Rapid City all are building or proposing multimillion-dollar arena expansions, and Bismarck needs to compete.
•

• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The Federal Aviation Administration says a single-engine airplane that crashed at the Pierre airport was an SQ2000, a plane that can be built from a kit.
• The plane crashed on takeoff Tuesday morning and the pilot was killed. He was the only person on board. Authorities have not identified him.
• KELO-TV reports that the plane was registered to a Pierre man who built it, but authorities have not said if he is the man who died in the crash.
• Officials with the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating. The airport remains open.
• KCCR radio reports that officials

(Continued on page 17)