Latest North Dakota Headlines
All the headlines from our North Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
North Dakota Property Crime Rate Down, but Violent Crimes on Rise
Jul 29 2010 // Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says North Dakota’s crime rate dropped slightly last year, but the number of violent crimes rose. A new report provides North Dakota statistics for a number of crimes, including...
Former North Dakota Work Comp Director’s Appeal Denied
Jul 19 2010 // North Dakota’s Supreme Court has upheld the felony conviction of former state workers’ compensation director Sandy Blunt, though the decision was not unanimous. Blunt appealed his December 2008 conviction on...
Quake Monitor Installation Nears Completion in North Dakota
Jul 19 2010 // Installation is nearly complete on a network of earthquake-detecting instruments being placed across North Dakota as part of a national project, officials say. Fred Anderson, a geologist with the state Geological Survey in...
North Dakota Bans Grand Forks Firm from Insurance Business
Jul 9 2010 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm has barred a Grand Forks man and his insurance company from doing business. The cease and desist order was issued against David Glessner and MAG Insurance LLC. They are accused...
$3.2 Million Premium Credited To North Dakota State and Local Governments
Jun 14 2010 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm announcedthat the State Fire and Tornado Fund will give a 50 percent premium credit to all of its policyholders for the new policy year effective July 1, 2010. This is the...
Mid-America Business Conditions Index at Highest Level in Four Years
Jun 1 2010 // The May Business Conditions Index for the Mid-America region advanced for a sixth straight month, pointing to a growing economy in the months ahead, according to the May Business Conditions survey of supply managers in the...
Flood Group Sticks With Original Red River Plan
May 28 2010 // A group studying a Red River diversion project in the Fargo and Moorhead, Minn., area said it will stick with its original plan even though it may not offer as much flood protection as first advertised. The Metro Flood...
Corps Raises 100-Year Flood Estimate for Fargo, North Dakota
May 17 2010 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has raised its 100-year flood estimate for the Red River in Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minn. The change raises the previous estimate about a foot to 42.6 feet. The new estimate was...
North Dakota Woman Named to Federal Crop Insurance Board
Apr 27 2010 // Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has named two new members to the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation board of directors. Ellen Linderman grows wheat, soybeans, corn, sunflowers, barley and millet on her farm near...
North Dakota Workers’ Comp Agency Proposes 3% Rate Increase
Apr 9 2010 // North Dakota’s workers compensation agency is proposing a 3.3 percent average increase in its rates, starting in July. Agency director Bryan Klipfel says most of the increase is because of North Dakota’s rising...
Wells Fargo Insurance Services Names Flick Account Exec in North Dakota
Apr 2 2010 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services has hired Lisa Flick as a commercial lines account executive in the Fargo, N.D., office. Flick will be responsible for servicing an existing book of commercial lines business. Flick joins...
FEMA Administrator Visits North Dakota To Discuss Flooding Response
Mar 22 2010 // Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate visited North Dakota to observe operations in response to Red River flooding and meet with North Dakota Governor John Hoeven, U.S. Senators Kent Conrad...
Lesson Learned: More Buy Flood Insurance in Minnesota After ’09
Mar 18 2010 // When the swollen Red River threatened his house in Moorehead, Minn., last spring, all Mark Baumgardner could do was pack up, leave and hope he wouldn’t lose everything, since didn’t have flood insurance. In the...
North Dakota Commissioner Revokes Insurance Agent’s License
Feb 25 2010 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm has revoked the license of a Stutsman County insurance agent. Hamm says Kyle Cuypers failed to disclose criminal convictions on his insurance producer license application last...
Odds of Flooding Increase in Fargo
Feb 23 2010 // North Dakota has an “incredible risk” of record spring flooding in Fargo, while major floods near Minot and Bismarck are possible from the winter’s heavy snowfall, National Weather Service analysts...
Indiana Records $20M in Insurance Recoveries for 2009; N.D. Nearly $7.6M
Feb 10 2010 // The Indiana Department of Insurance says it recovered more than $20 million for insurance consumers in 2009, a record for the state. In North Dakota, the insurance department reported $7,578,230.11 was recovered or saved...
Blue Cross Competitor Sanford Gets OK to Sell Insurance in ND
Feb 5 2010 // North Dakota regulators have given approval to Sanford Health Plan to sell health insurance in the state, likely setting up competition with the company that has dominated the North Dakota market for decades but has drawn...
North Dakota’s Pomeroy Says He’d Decline Insurance Lobbying Post
Feb 1 2010 // North Dakota Rep. Earl Pomeroy, who has been mentioned as a potential president of a Washington organization that represents life insurance companies, said he would not accept the position. “If they offered me the...
Former N.D. Regulator Possibly a Candidate to Lead Insurance Lobby
Jan 19 2010 // U.S. Rep. Earl Pomeroy of North Dakota is not seeking the presidency of a Washington lobbying group for life insurers, a spokeswoman said, although an industry representative called the North Dakota Democrat a...
North Dakota Has 3rd Lowest Auto Insurance Rates, Commissioner Says
Jan 8 2010 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm says drivers in his state are still paying among the lowest auto insurance premiums in the nation, according to the “Auto Insurance Database Report 2006/2007”...
