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North Dakota Supreme Court says DAPL security documents are public record
The high court's decision upheld a district court ruling that rejected an effort by Dakota Access parent company Energy Transfer to keep private 16,000 documents pertaining to a partnership formed with security contractor TigerSwan during the pipeline protests near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in 2016 and 2017. → Read More
North Dakota fines Xcel Energy over wind farm light suppressant delay
The Minneapolis-based utility was fined $4,500 for failing to install technology to suppress the red blinking lights on a Stutsman County wind farm ahead of a state-imposed, end of 2021 deadline. → Read More
As Biden bans Russian oil, industry sees potential windfall in North Dakota
While the Biden administration's block on Russian energy imports appears largely symbolic, observers of the North Dakota oil industry said surging global prices and a shifting political situation could precipitate production gains in the Bakken, which have held stagnant for the better part of the last year. → Read More
COVID-19 cases continue to subside in North Dakota; positivity rate hits lowest level in 6 months
Active virus case numbers have fallen by almost 94% from a pandemic record of more than 13,200 cases near the end of January. The North Dakota Department of Health reported just 835 cases in the state on Friday. → Read More
US coal plants slashed their mercury pollution. North Dakota accounts for a big share of what remains
North Dakota ranks second only to Texas in mercury emissions from EPA-regulated power sector sources. Driven by the low-grade coal found in North Dakota, several of the state's power plants rank among the heaviest mercury-polluting coal facilities in the country. → Read More
North Dakota truck convoy departs for DC area to join national pandemic protest
The convoy, which takes inspiration from the Canadian truckers who overwhelmed the country's capital of Ottawa earlier this year, was greeted by dozens of supporters at a Bismarck truck stop on Thursday. → Read More
Federal oil leasing stalls again in North Dakota
The U.S. Department of the Interior has cancelled a North Dakota sale planned for the first quarter of this year, attributing delays to a February ruling in a Louisiana court that blocked the Biden administration's attempts to factor climate change implications into its decision making. → Read More
As Russian invasion spikes oil prices, observers say Bakken boost is unlikely
Broiling tensions between Russia and Ukraine helped push global oil prices to their highest point in more than seven years this week, but industry watchers in North Dakota aren't expecting a significant drilling boost here. → Read More
Bismarck man killed in avalanche north of Yellowstone National Park
A 34 year-old man from Bismarck was buried under an avalanche on Saturday while riding a snow bike. → Read More
US Supreme Court declines to hear Dakota Access appeal
The country's high court has refused to hear an appeal by developers of the Dakota Access Pipeline seeking to overturn a mandated environmental review of their project. → Read More
Bismarck investment manager selected as new North Dakota land commissioner
Joseph Heringer, a Bismarck attorney and wealth manager, will succeed Jodi Smith, who announced her plans to leave the job in October. → Read More
North Dakota COVID-19 cases have plummeted over 70% since mid-January peak
Virus hospitalizations have also fallen in the last two weeks. The state reported 24 new virus deaths over the last seven days. → Read More
North Dakota attorney general's unexpected death attributed to cardiac arrest
Seven days after Wayne Stenehjem, the longest serving attorney general in North Dakota history, was found unresponsive in his Bismarck home, his wife attributed the cause to cardiac arrest and associated effects. → Read More
North Dakota attorney general hospitalized after being found unconscious at home
Steve Stenehjem, a cousin of the attorney general, said he's been told that Wayne Stenehjem was found unconscious at home Friday morning when a contractor arrived to do some work. → Read More
Standing Rock withdraws from environmental review of Dakota Access Pipeline
The tribe had been acting as a cooperating agency in the Army Corps' review of the controversial pipeline, but announced on Thursday that it has pulled over concerns about the agency's transparency and insufficient plans to address an oil leak. → Read More
North Dakota's active COVID-19 cases fall several thousand from pandemic record days ago
Active positives reached a pandemic high of more than 12,000 on Friday, but have fallen to just under 7,700 in the days since. → Read More
Project Tundra moves forward as North Dakota approves underground carbon dioxide storage
North Dakota's flagship, $1 billion carbon capture venture moved a step forward Friday with a key greenlight from top state regulators. → Read More
North Dakota's largest wind farm slated for coal county with anti-renewables rules
McLean County enacted restrictions on the development of new wind projects in response to plans for the retirement of Coal Creek Station, North Dakota's largest coal plant. But with a deal nearly secure to save the plant, local officials and project developers expect the local ordinances to fall. → Read More
Oil well site explodes in western North Dakota; no injuries reported
Around 1,300 barrels of oil were contained at the site in Divide County, and officials with the well operator are allowing the fire to burn through what remains until the blaze dies out on its own. → Read More
Century-old ranchland study yields new data on climate change, evolution of North Dakota's native prairie
When researchers at the Northern Great Plains Research Lab near Mandan first began researching the sustainability of North Dakota’s native grasslands in 1916, the words "climate change" would have meant little to them. But a century-old study is aiding new research to address today's problems. → Read More