All the headlines from our North Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 16 2010 // Health Care Challenge“While this case raises a host of complex constitutional issues, all seem to distill to the single question of whether or not Congress has the power to regulate — and tax — a citizen’s...
Aug 13 2010 // The attorney for a former North Dakota official who was convicted of misusing public funds says he will ask that the case be reopened because of a prosecutor’s questionable conduct.Mike Hoffman, an attorney for...
Aug 10 2010 // A review of North Dakota’s workers’ compensation program shows claim denials jumped between 2005 and 2009.Still, the review found claim practices were generally sound. In the reviewed period, denied claims rose...
Aug 3 2010 // The Institute for Supply Management, formerly the Purchasing Management Association, began formally surveying its membership in 1931 to gauge business conditions.The Creighton Economic Forecasting Group uses the same...
Aug 2 2010 // Low Seismicity “North Dakota is one of the lower seismicity areas of the country.” —Bob Woodward, a project director with The National Science Foundation’s EarthScope project in Washington, D.C.,...
Jul 29 2010 // Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says North Dakota’s crime rate dropped slightly last year, but the number of violent crimes rose.A new report provides North Dakota statistics for a number of crimes, including...
Jul 19 2010 // North Dakota’s Supreme Court has upheld the felony conviction of former state workers’ compensation director Sandy Blunt, though the decision was not unanimous. Blunt appealed his December 2008 conviction on...
Jul 19 2010 // Installation is nearly complete on a network of earthquake-detecting instruments being placed across North Dakota as part of a national project, officials say.Fred Anderson, a geologist with the state Geological Survey in...
Jul 9 2010 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm has barred a Grand Forks man and his insurance company from doing business.The cease and desist order was issued against David Glessner and MAG Insurance LLC. They are accused...
Jun 14 2010 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm announcedthat the State Fire and Tornado Fund will give a 50 percent premium credit to all of its policyholders for the new policy year effective July 1, 2010. This is the...
Jun 1 2010 // The May Business Conditions Index for the Mid-America region advanced for a sixth straight month, pointing to a growing economy in the months ahead, according to the May Business Conditions survey of supply managers in the...
May 28 2010 // A group studying a Red River diversion project in the Fargo and Moorhead, Minn., area said it will stick with its original plan even though it may not offer as much flood protection as first advertised.The Metro Flood...
May 17 2010 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has raised its 100-year flood estimate for the Red River in Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minn.The change raises the previous estimate about a foot to 42.6 feet. The new estimate was...
Apr 27 2010 // Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has named two new members to the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation board of directors. Ellen Linderman grows wheat, soybeans, corn, sunflowers, barley and millet on her farm near...
Apr 9 2010 // North Dakota’s workers compensation agency is proposing a 3.3 percent average increase in its rates, starting in July.Agency director Bryan Klipfel says most of the increase is because of North Dakota’s rising...
Apr 2 2010 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services has hired Lisa Flick as a commercial lines account executive in the Fargo, N.D., office. Flick will be responsible for servicing an existing book of commercial lines business. Flick joins...
Mar 22 2010 // Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate visited North Dakota to observe operations in response to Red River flooding and meet with North Dakota Governor John Hoeven, U.S. Senators Kent Conrad...
Mar 18 2010 // When the swollen Red River threatened his house in Moorehead, Minn., last spring, all Mark Baumgardner could do was pack up, leave and hope he wouldn’t lose everything, since didn’t have flood insurance.In the...
Feb 25 2010 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm has revoked the license of a Stutsman County insurance agent. Hamm says Kyle Cuypers failed to disclose criminal convictions on his insurance producer license application last...
Feb 23 2010 // North Dakota has an “incredible risk” of record spring flooding in Fargo, while major floods near Minot and Bismarck are possible from the winter’s heavy snowfall, National Weather Service analysts...