Latest North Dakota Headlines
All the headlines from our North Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ex-North Dakota Workers’ Comp Director Files Federal Appeal
Feb 27 2012 // A former North Dakota workers’ compensation director has asked a federal judge to review his felony conviction for misspending state funds, claiming county prosecutors used false testimony to get it. In a petition...
Fargo, North Dakota Police Make Record DUI Arrests in 2011
Feb 27 2012 // Fargo, N.D., police made a record 1,127 drunken driving arrests last year. Police Chief Keith Ternes says the 29 percent increase in DUI arrests over the year has authorities considering changing their message. He says it...
Insurance Agent Licenses in North Dakota Double in Decade
Feb 21 2012 // Officials said the telephone and the Internet have spurred an almost twofold increase in the number of insurance agents licensed to do business in North Dakota in the past decade. State insurance department data show an...
North Dakota Vehicle Registrations Top 1 Million
Feb 2 2012 // For 684,000 North Dakotans, there are now 1 million vehicles. North Dakota Transportation Department director Francis Ziegler reports Tuesday the agency registered more than 1 million vehicles last year. It’s an...
Red River Valley Flood Risk Keeps Receding
Jan 30 2012 // The risk of significant flooding in the Red River Valley is down from recent years and even lower than last month’s forecast due to the lack of snow, forecasters said on Jan. 26 — bolstering hopes the region may be...
Former North Dakota Insurance Agent Sent to Prison
Jan 25 2012 // A former Fargo insurance agent has been sentenced to three years in prison and five years on supervised probation for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from three women. Fifty-seven-year-old Jeffrey Neppl was...
Commissioner: North Dakota Has 2nd Lowest Auto Insurance Premiums
Jan 23 2012 // Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm reports that North Dakotans are paying the second lowest auto insurance premiums in the nation. The ranking was indicated in the “Auto Insurance Database Report 2008/2009,”...
North Dakota Town Approves Flood-Related Home Buyout Program
Jan 23 2012 // The city council in Minot, N.D., has approved a plan that could result in the acquisition of more than 270 properties for future flood protection measures. The voluntary program calls for negotiations to begin with willing...
Former North Dakota Insurance Agent Sentenced for Fraud
Jan 16 2012 // A former Minot, N.D. insurance agent has been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay nearly $1.2 million in restitution for wire fraud. Alan Henning, 58, pleaded guilty on Aug. 24, 2011, to charges that he diverted...
North Dakota Insurance Agent Sent to Jail
Jan 6 2012 // A Grand Forks, N.D., insurance agent who stole thousands of dollars from clients and forged checks in her fiance’s name has been ordered to spend eight months in jail and pay back more than...
Early Flood Outlook Looks Favorable for North Dakota
Dec 28 2011 // North Dakota residents who have taken turns battling major floods the last three years may be in for a break, based on the first National Weather Service flood outlook of the season. Hydrologist Allen Schlag says the...
Dry Northern Plains Helps Spring Runoff Prep
Dec 21 2011 // Thanks to a dry fall across the northern Plains, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is months ahead of schedule in releasing water from reservoirs on the upper Missouri River to guard against another spring of record-setting...
AIPSO Central Region Closing East Wacker Drive Office in Chicago
Dec 5 2011 // AIPSO, a management organization and service provider for various insurance industry groups responsible for administering the residual market, announced that the central region is closing its East Wacker Drive office in...
Former North Dakota Agent Admits to Mail, Wire Fraud
Dec 5 2011 // A former Minot, N.D., insurance agent has pleaded guilty to mail and wire fraud charges in federal court. Court documents indicate Alan Henning embezzled nearly $1.2 million between 2005 and 2010 from his employer, West...
Former North Dakota Insurance Agent Admits to Mail, Wire Fraud
Nov 28 2011 // A former Minot, N.D., insurance agent has pleaded guilty to mail and wire fraud charges in federal court. Court documents indicate Alan Henning embezzled nearly $1.2 million between 2005 and 2010 from his employer, West...
Vehicle Accidents on the Rise in North Dakota Oil Boom Town
Nov 23 2011 // Authorities in the city that serves as the hub for North Dakota’s oil activity say vehicle accidents are on the rise. Statistics released by police in Williston show there were nearly twice as many accidents reported...
Minot, North Dakota Proposes Diversion Plan for Souris River
Nov 22 2011 // Minot, N.D., officials are proposing a flood diversion plan for a river that spilled its banks earlier this year and forced thousands of people to evacuate. The idea announced on Nov. 18 would divert the Souris River...
North Dakota Senate Approves $600M Disaster Package
Nov 15 2011 // North Dakota’s Senate unanimously approved a $639 million disaster relief measure that includes money for low-interest home loans, road construction and repairs to public works. The measure’s centerpiece is a...
North Dakota House Rejects Health Insurance Exchange
Nov 14 2011 // Angered by a federal health care law that most of them despise, North Dakota House Republicans defeated legislation to give state officials authority over a health insurance marketing agency that the law requires states to...
Bank of North Dakota May Offer Homeowners Low-Interest Disaster Loans
Nov 10 2011 // A key provision in the North Dakota Legislature’s disaster aid bill would provide low-interest, unsecured loans of up to $30,000 for homeowners hit especially hard by this year’s flooding, the Bank of North...
