North Dakota News

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Monday was slated to visit a North Dakota Air Force base that has been plagued for years by missteps involving nuclear weapons.

In cities across the Bakken region of North Dakota, developer Oppidan Investment has launched a $150 million gamble on the economic boom underway in the oil-rich state.

One of four people charged with dealing cocaine, heroin, marijuana and ecstasy in North Dakota and Minnesota has been sentenced in federal court.

After reading Stan Stein's take on the 2013 legislative session I had to ask myself if he has actually drank the Kool-Aid the rest of his party has been dishing out, or if he's trying to play a game of misdirection with the people of North Dakota.

In the world of real estate, the common maxim is location, location, location. Women are not property, but the truism remains the same.

With the help of a booming energy sector, a population influx, and rising cropland prices, North Dakota community banks enjoy a tailwind to the top of SNL's list of best-performing community banks below $500 million in assets.

For the first time, one of the University of North Dakota law school students fanning out to summer externships with judges, courts and other parts of the legal system will join a tribal court, at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation Rachel Egstad, who has finished her first year at the law school, will assist in the prosecution of crimes at the ... (more)

Williston, N.D. It was about 25 years ago, Dave Hynek figures, when his Aunt Doris died.

Emergency services officials are headed to northeastern North Dakota to tell local authorities how to apply for reimbursement for damages from this year's spring flooding.

The brouhaha over Alberta's outlet for oil sands crude is just like - wait for it - the media frenzy over pregnant TV celebrity and socialite Kim Kardashian.

A Texas man is facing two counts of manslaughter in North Dakota for allegedly causing a traffic crash that killed two motorcycle drivers from Montana.

The next time Rita West's math students ask how they will ever use geometry, she'll have a real-world answer from North Dakota's oil patch.

There`s a good chance the final farm bill will be considerably different than the version the Senate passed last night.

The Minot Fire Department kicked off their annual "Fill the Boot" drive today. During the next three days, firefighters will be collecting money at 20th Avenue and 16th Street Southwest, and 3rd Street SE and East Burdick Expressway to help fund research and local services for the North Dakota Chapter of the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

The U.S. Senate passed a $955 billion rewrite of agriculture law by an even larger margin than last year, sending it to the House of Representatives, where disagreements over food stamps and farm subsidies may complicate passage.

Monday evening, the Senate voted 66-27 to pass a five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill that will expand government subsidies for crop insurance, rice and peanuts while making small cuts in the food stamp program.

North Dakota's Agriculture Department has scheduled a dozen sites for this year's round of Project Safe Send chemical collections.

The Memorial Road March was started by two Bismarck Gold Star mothers- to remember theirs sons, and other fallen comrades.

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE When the USS North Dakota, a Virginia-class nuclear submarine named for North Dakota, is ready to sail, Senior Chief Machinist Mate Richard Hicks and Electronics Technician 1st Class Robert Anderson will be on it.

This year approximately 18,000 students applied to the United States Navel Academy, and only about 1,200 are accepted.