All the headlines from our North Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 27 2012 // North Dakota insurance regulators have fined two mutual insurance companies $10,000 each for operating outside their authorized territories.State Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm says his office fined West McLean Farmers...
Apr 5 2012 // Federal flood recovery aid is not enough to meet the needs of Minot and Burlington, N.D., as they recover from record Souris River flooding last year, officials in those cities say.“The current level of federal aid...
Apr 4 2012 // Republicans are sticking with Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm as their choice for North Dakota’s top insurance regulator.At the North Dakota GOP state convention on March 31, delegates endorsed Hamm for re-election....
Mar 14 2012 // A former North Dakota Democratic U.S. Senate candidate says he’s running instead for state insurance commissioner.Tom Potter is a former finance instructor at the University of North Dakota. He now serves as a pastor...
Mar 5 2012 // A long-term Souris River flood protection plan in North Dakota could cost $820 million.Engineers have released their 1,500-page proposal to protect areas from Burlington through Minot to Velva, and also Mouse River Park in...
Mar 5 2012 // Officials said the telephone and the Internet have spurred an almost twofold increase in the number of insurance agents licensed to do business in North Dakota in the past decade. State insurance department data show an...
Mar 2 2012 // A Souris River flood protection plan in North Dakota could cost $820 million.Engineers have released their 1,500-page proposal to protect areas from Burlington through Minot to Velva, and also Mouse River Park in Renville...
Feb 29 2012 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm reported that more than $5.6 million was recovered or saved for North Dakota citizens in 2011.This money was recovered by the state insurance regulators on behalf of North...
Feb 27 2012 // A former North Dakota workers’ compensation director has asked a federal judge to review his felony conviction for misspending state funds, claiming county prosecutors used false testimony to get it.In a petition...
Feb 27 2012 // Fargo, N.D., police made a record 1,127 drunken driving arrests last year. Police Chief Keith Ternes says the 29 percent increase in DUI arrests over the year has authorities considering changing their message. He says it...
Feb 21 2012 // Officials said the telephone and the Internet have spurred an almost twofold increase in the number of insurance agents licensed to do business in North Dakota in the past decade. State insurance department data show an...
Feb 2 2012 // For 684,000 North Dakotans, there are now 1 million vehicles.North Dakota Transportation Department director Francis Ziegler reports Tuesday the agency registered more than 1 million vehicles last year. It’s an...
Jan 30 2012 // The risk of significant flooding in the Red River Valley is down from recent years and even lower than last month’s forecast due to the lack of snow, forecasters said on Jan. 26 — bolstering hopes the region may be...
Jan 25 2012 // A former Fargo insurance agent has been sentenced to three years in prison and five years on supervised probation for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from three women. Fifty-seven-year-old Jeffrey Neppl was...
Jan 23 2012 // Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm reports that North Dakotans are paying the second lowest auto insurance premiums in the nation.The ranking was indicated in the “Auto Insurance Database Report 2008/2009,”...
Jan 23 2012 // The city council in Minot, N.D., has approved a plan that could result in the acquisition of more than 270 properties for future flood protection measures. The voluntary program calls for negotiations to begin with willing...
Jan 16 2012 // A former Minot, N.D. insurance agent has been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay nearly $1.2 million in restitution for wire fraud.Alan Henning, 58, pleaded guilty on Aug. 24, 2011, to charges that he diverted premiums...
Jan 6 2012 // A Grand Forks, N.D., insurance agent who stole thousands of dollars from clients and forged checks in her fiance’s name has been ordered to spend eight months in jail and pay back more than...
Dec 28 2011 // North Dakota residents who have taken turns battling major floods the last three years may be in for a break, based on the first National Weather Service flood outlook of the season.Hydrologist Allen Schlag says the...
Dec 21 2011 // Thanks to a dry fall across the northern Plains, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is months ahead of schedule in releasing water from reservoirs on the upper Missouri River to guard against another spring of record-setting...