All the headlines from our North Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 15 2020 // Killdeer City, N.D., Administrator Matt Oase can’t help but notice that the community’s population is not what it was six months ago, and wonder what that might mean for the 2020 census count.Apartment...
Sep 8 2020 // A structural failure led to a 2018 air ambulance crash in North Dakota that killed all three people on board, a new report says.The Bismarck Tribune reports the National Transportation Safety Board last month published its...
Sep 2 2020 // North Dakota Democrats have endorsed a new candidate for insurance commissioner after the state Supreme Court ruled the party’s initial nominee was ineligible for the ballot.In a unanimous opinion last week, the high...
Aug 27 2020 // The North Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that the Democratic nominee for insurance commissioner is ineligible for the November ballot.In a unanimous opinion, the high court upheld a lower court ruling that concluded...
Aug 19 2020 // A South Central District judge has concluded the Democratic-NPL nominee for North Dakota insurance commissioner hasn’t lived in the state long enough to hold the office.The decision by Judge Thomas Schneider about...
Aug 18 2020 // A big fire at an apartment building in Mandan, N.D., last week started accidentally with improperly discarded smoking materials, police said.The determination was made after examination of physical evidence and interviews...
Aug 12 2020 // A large fire at an apartment complex in Mandan, N.D., has displaced its tenants.Flames could be seen shooting from the roof of the three-story Sunset Bluffs Apartments Monday night. The Red Cross is assisting an unknown...
Jul 23 2020 // Some current and former employees of a company developing an oil refinery near Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota filed a lawsuit claiming they are owed wages and bonuses.Meridian Energy Group first proposed...
Jul 13 2020 // At least three Midwest states – Michigan, Missouri and North Dakota will receive federal help after President Donald Trump approved their requests for federal disaster declarations.Missouri requested a federal disaster...
Jul 13 2020 // The North Dakota Republican Party is asking the state Supreme Court to remove Democratic candidate for state insurance commissioner from the November ballot, alleging she hasn’t lived in the state long enough to run...
May 22 2020 // The North Dakota Republican Party is questioning the eligibility of the Democratic candidate for state insurance commissioner, alleging she hasn’t lived in the state long enough to run for statewide office.In a...
May 21 2020 // Harnessing today’s technology to fight the coronavirus pandemic is turning out to be more complicated than it first appeared.The first U.S. states that rolled out smartphone apps for tracing the contacts of COVID-19...
May 18 2020 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jon Godfread has issued a bulletin addressing coverage for COVID-19 testing in response to an executive order from Gov. Doug Burgum. The new bulletin builds an a previous bulletin in...
May 13 2020 // The North Dakota State Fair is the latest casualty of the coronavirus outbreak, as the number of cases and deaths in the state continue to rise.Fair officials announced they’re calling off the event because of...
May 7 2020 // Fargo, North Dakota-based insurance holding company, NI Holdings Inc., the parent company of Nodak Insurance, is planning to repurchase up to approximately $10 million of the company’s outstanding common stock.The...
Apr 21 2020 // An online, remotely proctored testing application called ProProctor, offered by Prometric, the producer licensing testing and assessment provider for North Dakota, is now available in that state, according to North Dakota...
Apr 20 2020 // A coronavirus outbreak at a northeastern North Dakota wind turbine plant has ballooned to 110 cases in early testing and one city official said he expects a “prolonged battle” to control the spread.An uptick in...
Apr 16 2020 // A top state oil regulator estimates that North Dakota producers have idled thousands of wells — amounting to more than a quarter of the oil wells in the state — as the U.S. oil industry crashed during the coronavirus...
Mar 31 2020 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jon Godfread has issued a number of bulletins offering guidance to the insurance industry in response to executive orders made by Gov. Doug Burgum, and in the interest of protecting...
Mar 11 2020 // U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has designated 16 North Dakota counties as natural disaster areas due to extreme weather last year ranging from drought to excessive moisture.The announcement, combined with a...