All the headlines from our North Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 6 2009 // Eight months after North Dakota voters gave Gov. John Hoeven the final word on state workers’ compensation rates, employers’ insurance bills are likely to rise due to the recent bleak market for...
Jun 24 2009 // North Dakota’s top agriculture official is asking the federal government to consider adding another wrinkle to a new insurance program that pays ranchers based on rainfall or the greenness of their pastures.The Risk...
Jun 23 2009 // Eight months after North Dakota voters gave Gov. John Hoeven the final word on state workers’ compensation rates, employers’ insurance bills are likely to rise as a consequence of the recent bleak market for...
May 19 2009 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm has revoked the license of Rex Graves, a Jamestown insurance agent who the insurance department says engaged in deceitful and dishonest practices involving his insurance...
May 18 2009 // North Dakota law enforcement officers the next few weeks will be cracking down on seat belt violations. The state Transportation Department says the number of law enforcement agencies participating in this year’s...
Apr 27 2009 // The governors and senators of North Dakota and Minnesota plan a meeting in Washington to promote permanent flood protection in the Red River basin.North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven and Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., said in a...
Apr 24 2009 // A North Dakota insurance agent has been barred from engaging in the business of insurance under a cease and desist order issued by the state insurance department.According to the order issued by North Dakota Insurance...
Apr 14 2009 // A levee breach along the Sheyenne River in North Dakota had officials scrambling for a fix and National Guard helicopters dropping 1,000-pound sandbags into the gap in the levee in Valley City, about 60 miles west of...
Apr 8 2009 // Recent floods are receding for now, but farmers and ranchers in North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota are worried they’re on track to repeat the dismal year of 1997.That was the year spring blizzards and record...
Apr 6 2009 // Japanese Suicide“The first thing that would make me feel a little bit better toward them (is) if they’d follow the Japanese example and come before the American people and take that deep bow and say, I’m...
Apr 3 2009 // North Dakota’s spring flooding problems have focused new attention on a proposed $44 million state disaster fund that a Fargo lawmaker wants to establish.“Setting the money aside is more critical than...
Apr 2 2009 // The North Dakota Insurance Department’s office at 1701 South 12th Street has reopened. The office was closed Wednesday and Thursday, March 25 and 26, after flood water surrounded the building, making it inaccessible.
Mar 31 2009 // Just as the Red River began retreating from Fargo, N.D.’s hastily fortified levees, the city’s tired residents stared down a winter storm March 30 that is expected to bring than a foot of snow and wind-whipped...
Mar 31 2009 // As North Dakota’s Red River crept within view of their backyard this past week, Denette and Billy Narum had an extra incentive to pray their sandbags held. Like most people in the path of potential floods, they have...
Mar 27 2009 // The North Dakota Insurance Department’s office at 1701 South 12th Street is closed until further notice due to flooding. Several staff members will be working out of the capitol tower office. For more information,...
Mar 26 2009 // President Barack Obama has declared North Dakota a federal disaster area because of statewide flooding.North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven says the move means the federal government will pay 75 percent of state and local...
Mar 26 2009 // North Dakota smokers may have to get used to puffing more frequently to help prevent accidental fires.The state Senate voted 41-0 this week to approve legislation that says North Dakota tobacco merchants may sell only...
Mar 23 2009 // Former North Dakota Highway Patrol superintendent Bryan Klipfel has been named the state’s new workers compensation director by Gov. John Hoeven. It’s the governor’s first hire since North Dakota voters...
Mar 16 2009 // Emergency management officials in Fargo and Grand Forks are ordering pumps, topping off levees and planning dikes after forecasters predicted record flooding this spring along the Red River Basin.“The magnitude of...
Mar 13 2009 // The North Dakota House has defeated a change in how the state’s insurance laws affect people who rent cars.North Dakota law now says if someone has an accident in a rental car, the rental company’s insurance is...