Mountrail County News

Whiting Petroleum Corporation today announced that it completed a discovery well in the Three Forks formation at the Company's Lewis & Clark prospect in Golden Valley County, North Dakota.

Olga Peterson, 91, Stanley, died Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009, in a Stanley nursing home.

NDMountrail County Fatal,0156 Minivan crash kills ND woman Eds: APNewsNow. STANLEY, N.D. The Highway Patrol says a minivan crashed into the rear of a truck that was stuck, killing a 78-year-old passenger in the minivan and injuring two others in Mountrail County.

An auction of oil drilling rights on North Dakota state land has fetched $71.6 million, a record haul that will go mostly to benefit public schools.

THE STATE LAND DEPARTMENT HOLDS THE AUCTIONS EVERY THREE MONTHS. LAND COMMISSIONER GARY PRESZLER SAYS THIS WEEK'S SALE GREATLY EXCEEDED THE AGENCY'S EXPECTATIONS.

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Jennet Corlene Edwards, 87, Plaza, N.D., died Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009, in a Minot, N.D., hospital.

Townships will gain access to oil-tax revenue and counties and cities are less likely to reach caps as quickly under changes in the state formula for distributing revenue from an oil and gas gross production tax.

The truck from base's 91st Missile Wing overturned on Aug. 31, on a gravel road about 10 miles northwest of Berthold in Mountrail County .

Summer is always a popular time for centennial celebrations in North Dakota , and as the season nears its end, residents of one century-old county are going out with a bang.

The Air Force says it has recovered intercontinental ballistic missile parts from an overturned semitrailer that crashed in northwestern North Dakota.

Military officials said Tuesday it could take a week to clear a site in north central North Dakota where a semitrailer carrying missile parts from Minot Air Force Base overturned.

Have you ever wondered what you would buy if you won the lottery? Well, Tioga High School may not have hit the jackpot, but thanks to school district oil leases in Mountrail County , they have a lot more money to spend the only catch is the time in which they can spend it.

HIGHWAY 23 HAS BEEN THE SCENE OF RECENT TRAFFIC DEATHS. AUTHORITIES SAID TWO WOMEN WERE KILLED EARLY SUNDAY IN MOUNTRAIL COUNTY WHEN THE CAR IN WHICH THEY WERE RIDING CROSSED THE CENTER LINE AND COLLIDED HEAD-ON WITH A PICKUP TRAVELING TO AN OIL RIG SITE.

Three Affiliated Tribes Chairman Marcus Levings wants to explore widening N.D. Highway 23 to four lanes from Watford City to U.S. Highway 83.

The North Dakota Highway Patrol says an accident just west of New Town Sunday morning killed a Minot woman and Bismarck woman and injured two others.

AUTHORITIES SAY 25-YEAR-OLD TRIVIAN RUSH OF MINOT AND 27-YEAR-OLD VIKILYNN STANDISH OF BISMARCK DIED WHEN THE CAR THEY WERE IN CROSSED THE CENTER LINE AND STRUCK A PICKUP TRUCK JUST BEFORE 6 A.M. SUNDAY ON STATE HIGHWAY 23.

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North Dakota 's oil boom has meant big money for many individuals - and the state's bottom line... But some county officials say the state is not sending enough of that money back to the areas that are impacted by oil exploration.