All the headlines from our North Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 26 2021 // A Fargo, N. D., birdseed production company has reached a settlement with a federal agency that investigated a severe and life-altering injury to an employee.The probe by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
Mar 25 2021 // North Dakota’s House has rebuffed another attempt at changing the state’s seat belt law.The House voted 49-45 to kill the proposal to allow police to pull over drivers if they see them not wearing seat belts....
Mar 16 2021 // Authorities say a semi-trailer hauling milk crashed in central North Dakota over the weekend and spilled nearly 8,000 gallons of milk.The North Dakota Highway Patrol says the truck went in the ditch about 4 miles south of...
Mar 16 2021 // The coronavirus pandemic has had a significantly negative impact on North Dakota’s oil and gas industry, resulting in the shedding of thousands of jobs last year.The oil industry’s recovery has been slow. Job...
Mar 10 2021 // A man accusing of lying to investigators about the 2014 death of an oilfield worker in North Dakota pleaded guilty on March 8 in federal court.Stephan Reisinger, 50, of Kalispell, Montana, is charged with obstructing an...
Mar 9 2021 // Authorities say a small-town North Dakota fire department lost its building and likely six trucks in a fire.The blaze at the Glenburn Fire Department was reported about 5 a.m. on March 6. Fire crews from Lansford, Maxbass...
Feb 25 2021 // The Republican-controlled House has passed legislation to legalize recreational marijuana in North Dakota.Lawmakers also passed a related bill setting up a tax policy for marijuana. Both bills now go to the Senate. The...
Feb 23 2021 // North Dakota lawmakers are weighing a bill aimed at cutting down on an epidemic of catalytic converter thefts.The catalytic converters have become a hot item for thieves because of the precious metals inside. The devices,...
Jan 28 2021 // Some North Dakota lawmakers are pushing legislation aimed at shielding businesses and health care facilities from lawsuits over customers’ or employees’ COVID-19 exposure, despite criticism that it may be...
Jan 26 2021 // A judge has struck down a North Dakota’s law that landowners say takes away their property rights.The so-called pore space law passed the Legislature in 2019 after supporters sought clarification on the use of...
Jan 22 2021 // The North Dakota Senate has rejected a bill that would have allowed the state to hold liable any corporate officer responsible for oil- and gas-related violations.The North Dakota Petroleum Council and the Greater North...
Jan 20 2021 // Authorities say an explosion at an oil tank battery near New Town, North Dakota, on Jan. 18 sent 14 tanks up in flames and caused oil and brine to spill. No injuries were reported. New Town Fire Chief John DeGroot said the...
Jan 19 2021 // A weather system packing hurricane-force wind gusts has caused extensive damage and power outages in western and central North Dakota.The National Weather Service reported wind gusts of 77 mph at Garrison, 81 mph in...
Jan 12 2021 // A bipartisan group of lawmakers want to tighten North Dakota’s seat belt law to allow police to pull over anyone they see driving unbuckled — or any of their passengers.It’s the latest and the most...
Dec 1 2020 // The app builders had planned for pranksters, ensuring that only people with verified COVID-19 cases could trigger an alert. They’d planned for heavy criticism about privacy, in many cases making the features as...
Nov 19 2020 // About 70 drivers and warehouse workers at a Fargo, N.D., food distributor have gone on strike because they don’t believe the company is doing enough to protect them from exposure to COVID-19.Members of Teamsters...
Nov 17 2020 // Like many medical workers around the world, the coronavirus pandemic is a burden that Fargo emergency room nurse Adam Johnston can’t escape. The grim reality follows him everywhere: at work, where people die every...
Oct 23 2020 // North Dakota officials say they want to repurpose $16 million in federal coronavirus aid and spend it on grants to encourage fracking instead of using it to clean up abandoned oil well sites.Regulators have presented the...
Oct 21 2020 // North Dakota regulators say an equipment failure at a well near Watford City led to the release of more than 121,000 gallons of oil. The state’s Oil and Gas Division said it was notified of the spill on Sunday at the...
Oct 16 2020 // The family of a man who died after being arrested by Valley City, N.D., police in 2018 has reached a settlement in a civil lawsuit against the city, Barnes County and two police officers.The family of 72-year-old Warren...