Dustin Monke
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Dickinson, ND, United States
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North Dakota man arrested after Sunday shooting incidents
A 21-year-old Dickinson man was arrested after shooting a handgun and threatening multiple people early Sunday morning.Tyler Daniel Hendricks was taken into custody on Class C felony reckless endangerment charges at an apartment on the 1800 block of Prairie Avenue shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday. He is being... → Read More
Meridian Energy submits permit to construct refinery
Meridian Energy submits permit to construct refinery BISMARCK—The company planning to build an oil refinery west of Belfield, N.D., and just three miles from Theodore Roosevelt National Park's eastern edge has submitted its permit application to the North Dakota Department of Health.On Friday, Oct.... → Read More
Dickinson family welcomes third child born on same day for third straight year
Life seems to happen in threes for the Stevenson family.Seth and Lauren Stevenson, of Dickinson, were married in 2013 after a three-day engagement just three months after they first met while working on an oilfield site near Camel's Hump Lake.So it only made sense that on Thursday, for the third consecutive... → Read More
VIDEO: Grain storage bags saving farmers time, money this harvest
Though they may look like snowdrifts that somehow survived into the summer, the humongous white plastic bags that are appear on the southwest North Dakota landscape during harvest are full of very valuable commodities.The 300- to 500-foot grain storage devices, which can hold anywhere from 12,000 to... → Read More
4,000 barrels of source water spills in southwest North Dakota
RHAME -- Around 4,000 barrels of source water spilled Tuesday at a Denbury Onshore well site in Bowman County that has a history of problems.Roughly 168,000 gallons of source water, which is higher in dissolved solids and minerals than fresh water, released into a dry creek bed about eight miles southwest... → Read More
Engineers admits error in water tower design
A new water tower built in east Dickinson is too tall and must be shortened, representatives from the engineering firm KLJ told the city commissioners on Monday.KLJ engineers admitted during the regular meeting that the 150-foot tower was built 78 feet too tall because of an error that happened early... → Read More
Parts of southwest N.D. on cusp of grain harvest
Kelly Herberholz made the first cut of this year's harvest a week ago.Since then, he and his father, Joe, have slowly been chipping away at their crop throughout central and western Hettinger County. Kelly estimates they have at least 300 acres done and that much of their spring wheat is running between... → Read More
Police: Man arrested for meth ingestion after being found near LEC
A 53-year-old Dickinson man was arrested for ingestion of controlled substance, methamphetamine, on Wednesday night after he was found lying in the parking lot of the Law Enforcement Center in Dickinson.Richard Powell was first detained by police around 9 p.m. after he was reported to be running on Gum... → Read More
House fire displaces Dickinson couple, pets
A house fire displaced a Dickinson couple and their pets late Tuesday night on the 1100 block of 26th Street West.The probable cause for the fire was faulty electrical wiring in a downstairs recreation room, Dickinson Fire Chief Bob Sivak said Wednesday.There was fire and heat damage throughout the basement,... → Read More
Exec: Davis Refinery not affected by Dakota Prairie Refinery sale
Thomas Johnson, chief operating officer of California-based Meridian Energy Group, said Tuesday's sale of the Dickinson diesel refinery doesn't affect his company's goal of building the Davis Refinery, which would process 55,000 barrels of Bakken crude a day. "We did economic modeling, what our costs are going to be and concluded that we're going to make some profits there in the Bakken and the… → Read More
North Dakota brand inspection fee increase approved
The per-head inspection fee will be $1.50. The permanent horse permit fee will be $25. The registered feedlot permit fee will be $25. The per-head registered feedlot fee will be 50 cents. The current fees for per-head inspection, permanent horse permit, registered feedlot permit and per-head registered feedlot are $1, $10, $20 and 10 cents, respectively. The fees have been the same since 2011,… → Read More
Tornado touches down near Mott; wind damages Hettinger County farms
MOTT – A tornado touched down south of Mott and high winds damaged farmsteads in south central Hettinger County on Tuesday night, according to reports from the National Weather Service and area residents.National Weather Service meteorologist Ken Simosko said a team on the ground confirmed the tor... → Read More
Southwest Water asks customers to conserve water after power outage at lake intake
The Southwest Water Authority is asking all of its customers to conserve water after Tuesday night’s thunderstorms caused a power outage to its main intake at Lake Sakakawea.The intake is located on the lake north of Zap in Mercer County.The SWA said in a statement that it hopes to have power to t... → Read More
Mott-Regent passes $8.7 million school bond issue by thin margin
MOTT—Mott-Regent is getting a new elementary school and making major improvements to its high school.The district's school board made that official Monday after a canvassing meeting found that 61 percent of the district's residents voted in favor of the $8.7 million bond referendum. The project ne... → Read More
Insight
The week on Insight, Dustin Monke and Brock White discuss the state and local elections, including Doug Burgum's victory over Wayne Stenehjem. They also sit down with Scott Decker, Dickinson's new mayor. → Read More
Police Blotter: Man arrested after hit-and-run incident
A 29-year-old Dickinson man was arrested for leaving the scene of an accident, a Class A misdemeanor, driving without liability insurance, a Class B misdemeanor, and driving without a license after striking a vehicle with his own around 8:20 p.m. Monday in the Anytime Fitness parking lot. → Read More
Decker's attorney moves to suppress interrogation confession
The attorney for a Dickinson man facing life in prison for allegedly sexually abusing a 6-year-old female relative asked a judge to suppress state's evidence of a police interrogation video that shows his client confessing to the crime. → Read More
Dickinson man who escaped SD facility jailed after reporting to police he was punched in the face
A Dickinson man wanted by authorities for escaping a South Dakota minimum-security facility nearly two weeks ago was arrested Tuesday morning by Dickinson police after he called them to report he had been punched in the face. Paul Thomas Steiner, 62, was arrested shortly before 10 a.m. at a residenc... → Read More
Keystone XL denial affected Dakota Access Pipeline strategy, executive says
BISMARCK--The denial of the Keystone XL pipeline affected how the company building the Dakota Access Pipeline executed its strategy, one of its engineering... → Read More
CEO of company building $900 million Davis Refinery emphasizes environment
BISMARCK—Meridian Energy Group CEO Bill Prentice said his company wants to make southwest North Dakota home to an oil refinery that could change the industry,... → Read More