WDAZ's weekend news was taken over by WDAY in 2011 and its 5 p.m. weekday newscast was taken over in July 2014. The decision to replace the 5 p.m. broadcast was met with an immediate backlash from viewers, including those who circulated a petition on Change.org demanding that Forum restore the local 5 p.m. news to WDAZ. On February 22, 2012, WDAY-TV began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. KBMY and KMCY began airing some of WDAY's newscasts in 2014. WDAY-TV signs off briefly in the overnight hours; as a result, ABC's overnight news program, "World News Now", is not broadcast. It goes off the air at 3:37 a.m. and signs on again at 4 a.m. to broadcast "America This Morning". The station also preempts the network's NBA pre-game show "NBA Countdown" to carry paid programming. In August 2016, WDAY-TV launched a half-hour prime time newscast on its second and third subchannels called "WDAY'Z Xtra News at 9". "WDAY'Z Xtra News at 9" is also simulcast on WDAZ's subchannels in Grand Forks, as well as KBMY/KMCY's subchannels in the Bismarck–Minot market. On September 11, 2017, WDAY-TV launched a 4 p.m. weekday newscast that is simulcast on sister station WDAZ. It was the first afternoon newscast ever to air in the market. On November 30, 2018, it was announced that WDAZ would merge its news department with that of WDAY-TV, resulting in the cancellation of WDAZ's separate 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts, effective December 21. General manager Joshua Roher cited "changes to distribution of television, emerging technologies and economic factors in our area" as reasons for the consolidation, in a statement to the "Grand Forks Herald". WDAY-TV continues to maintain a news bureau and sales office in Grand Forks.