All the headlines from our North Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 6 2011 // A Bismarck, N.D., insurance agent accused of falsifying insurance applications to qualify for weekly bonuses has lost his agent license.North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm revoked the license of Michael Krebs....
May 2 2011 // North Dakota’s per-capita rate of on-the-job deaths remains among the highest in the country, a new report shows. Officials cite the state’s rural nature as a big reason.The AFL-CIO report shows the state had...
Apr 28 2011 // North Dakota the 31st state to ban texting behind the wheel, according to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood who praised North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple for signing a new law banning the practice.The new law,...
Apr 25 2011 // North Dakota officials say that many small and aging dams will likely need repair after a third straight waterlogged spring.One of those dams, near Burlington, nearly failed recently, and about 200 people were advised to...
Apr 21 2011 // Snowstorms on top of flooding in North Dakota have not yet resulted in many cattle deaths as feared, but lingering cold, wet weather threatens the state’s herd, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official said.Spring...
Apr 12 2011 // Record flooding in parts of the U.S. Red River Valley has slowed grain movement, but lake-like fields are nothing new to farmers who battle flooding on some scale each spring, industry officials said.The Red River, which...
Apr 11 2011 // The Red River Sunday had started a gradual decline in the Fargo-Moorhead area after reaching a preliminary crest at the fourth-highest level on record with rain storms coming in lighter than expected.“This rain will...
Apr 4 2011 // A North Dakota man who says he slipped and fell on ice outside a post office in Wilton is suing the government for half a million dollars. Paul Patrick says the post office was negligent for not maintaining the sidewalk....
Apr 1 2011 // Fargo officials have yet to deliver sandbags to residents along the Red River, but the North Dakota city’s flood hotline is up and running.The service is managed by the city’s library and meant for people who...
Mar 21 2011 // The North Dakota Insurance Department says fraud referrals have been doubling since 2008.The Jamestown Sun reports that the 94 referrals in 2010 totaled more than $1 million in suspicious claims. North Dakota Insurance...
Mar 17 2011 // The number of flood insurance policies issued to North Dakota residents so far this year is down slightly from last year, despite predictions of high water and an emergency declaration request for about one-third of the...
Mar 7 2011 // One of the snowiest winters on record for the Midwest and northern U.S. Plains have crop watchers worried about a repeat of the massive flooding that hit one of the world’s top grain producing regions in...
Feb 25 2011 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm reported that the North Dakota Insurance Department helped recover or save more than $5.5 million for North Dakota citizens in 2010.This number represents money recovered on...
Feb 24 2011 // North Dakota’s former workers’ compensation director is asking the state Supreme Court for the second time to throw out his felony conviction for misspending public funds.Sandy Blunt’s attorney told the...
Feb 21 2011 // A proposal to give workers’ compensation insurance coverage to emergency workers for mental stress has been defeated in the North Dakota House.North Dakota’s workers’ compensation law normally...
Feb 18 2011 // A large swath of the country is at risk of moderate to major flooding this spring, from northeastern Montana through western Wisconsin following the Mississippi River south to St. Louis, National Weather Service flood...
Feb 11 2011 // The cost of flood control in North Dakota’s Devils Lake region has surpassed $1 billion, but the worst could be yet to come this spring if forecast predictions of rises in the lake’s level prove accurate,...
Feb 10 2011 // Hot Items“Thieves can steal these converters in less than a minute. …They also do a lot of damage to the car when they do steal it. Taking a few precautionary measures may deter thieves from attempting to steal...
Feb 9 2011 // Recent high-profile accident cases have put a regulatory spotlight on grain elevators. Speakers at the North Dakota Grain Dealers Association annual meeting in Fargo talked about a range of financial perils elevators must...
Feb 8 2011 // A proposal to give workers’ compensation insurance coverage to emergency workers for mental stress has been defeated in the North Dakota House.North Dakota’s workers’ compensation law normally...