Latest North Dakota Headlines
All the headlines from our North Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Flood Control Plan for North Dakota’s Souris River Valley in Limbo
Aug 21 2014 // Plans for an $823 million flood control project for the Souris River Valley in North Dakota are in limbo due to federal policy changes and disagreements in Congress. Corps of Engineers officials are studying new rules that...
Medical Director at North Dakota’s Workers’ Comp Agency Resigns
Aug 21 2014 // The medical director at North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency has resigned. KXMB-TV reports that Luis Vilella stepped down on Aug. 15 after eight years with Workforce Safety and Insurance. Vilella has...
Torrential Rains Leave Flooded Homes, Injuries in North Dakota
Aug 20 2014 // Torrential rains led to weekend flooding in parts of North Dakota, inundating or threatening more than a dozen homes in the west and causing at least two injuries in the east. Many areas of the state got several inches of...
Insurance to Pay After North Dakota Senior Drives Through Fresh Cement
Aug 14 2014 // A road construction company says it will have to redo 50 feet of concrete on a Fargo street after a 78-year-old woman drove through fresh cement. The accident happened in a construction zone near 25th Street and Interstate...
Judge Says Inspectors Must Have Full Access to North Dakota Mine
Aug 8 2014 // A North Dakota company must allow federal inspectors unfettered access to a sand and gravel mine that is the subject of workplace safety complaints, a federal judge ordered Aug. 6. The U.S. Department of Labor filed a...
North Dakota State Fire and Tornado Fund Waives Premiums
Aug 5 2014 // The North Dakota State Fire and Tornado Fund (F&T) for the first time in its history will waive insurance premiums for its policyholders, the state insurance department announced “The State Fire and Tornado Fund...
Crop Insurer to Reimburse Some North Dakota Policyholders
Aug 5 2014 // A crop insurer has reached an agreement with North Dakota insurance regulators under which it will return a portion of premiums to some crop/hail insurance policyholders. North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm...
Cause of Blaze at North Dakota Oil Supply Company Unknown
Jul 23 2014 // More than half a day after an industrial fire broke out in the North Dakota oil patch town of Williston, N.D., authorities still were unable to say what caused the massive blaze. The fire, which started around midnight...
As America Overall Ages with Boomers, Energy States See Youth Boom
Jul 21 2014 // Seven states, including five in the Great Plains, saw their median age decline between 2012 and 2013, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. At the same time, the median age for the United States as a whole ticked up...
Top Wages in North Dakota in Oil Producing Counties
Jul 10 2014 // Job Service North Dakota data show counties that produced oil last year held nine of the top 10 spots in average annual wages. Research analyst Michael Ziesch says North Dakota’s average annual wage increased about 4...
As America Overall Ages with Boomers, Energy States See Youth Boom
Jul 7 2014 // Seven states, including five in the Great Plains, saw their median age decline between 2012 and 2013, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. At the same time, the median age for the U.S. as a whole ticked up from 37. 5...
North Dakota Regulator Urges State Monitoring of Oil Trains
Jun 30 2014 // North Dakota should employ its own railroad safety inspectors to help the federal government monitor crude oil shipments coming from the state’s booming oil patch, a state regulator said. Public Service Commissioner...
As America Overall Ages with Boomers, Energy States See Youth Boom
Jun 26 2014 // Seven states, including five in the Great Plains, saw their median age decline between 2012 and 2013, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. At the same time, the median age for the U.S. as a whole ticked up from 37.5...
No Flood Insurance Rate Hike for Most Minot, North Dakota Residents
Jun 24 2014 // Officials say only a small number of Minot, N.D., residents have been forced to pay higher premiums for flood insurance, despite a devastating flood three years ago that wiped out most of the city. Multiple claims on a...
Williston, North Dakota Cracks Down on Unlicensed, Uninsured Taxis
Jun 18 2014 // The Williston, N.D., city commission has approved a new taxi cab ordinance that will fine drivers for operating a vehicle without a city license or insurance. The Williston Herald reports that the rules came after...
Federal Oil Well Inspections Lag in Dakotas
Jun 17 2014 // Federal oilfield inspectors are hustling to clear a backlog of hundreds of uninspected well sites on public and tribal lands in North Dakota, amid the explosion of drilling activity. The Bureau of Land Management, which...
Weather Service: North Dakota Tornado Was EF-2
May 30 2014 // A rare North Dakota tornado that critically injured a 15-year-old girl and hurt eight other people at a workers’ camp in the heart of the state’s booming oil patch packed winds that peaked at 120 mph, the...
North Dakota Tornado Tears Through Oil Patch, Injures 9, Destroys Trailers
May 28 2014 // Investigators headed to western North Dakota on May 27 to assess the strength of a tornado that injured nine people, including a 15-year-old girl who suffered critical injuries, and damaged or destroyed 15 trailers at a...
No Crop Insurance Deadline Extension for North Dakota Corn Planting
May 23 2014 // The federal government says regulations prevent it from even considering a request by U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp to extend a corn planting deadline to ease farmers’ insurance concerns in North Dakota. The U.S....
Senator Wants Feds to Help North Dakota Corn Growers
May 21 2014 // North Dakota corn farmers are having a tough time getting their crop in the ground because of a wet spring, and U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp is asking the federal government to help them out. The Democratic senator is calling...
