Latest North Dakota Headlines
All the headlines from our North Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Blaze at North Dakota Fire Department Totals Building, Damages Trucks
Mar 9 2021 // Authorities say a small-town North Dakota fire department lost its building and likely six trucks in a fire. The blaze at the Glenburn Fire Department was reported about 5 a.m. on March 6. Fire crews from Lansford, Maxbass...
North Dakota House Passes Bill That Would Legalize Recreational Marijuana
Feb 25 2021 // The Republican-controlled House has passed legislation to legalize recreational marijuana in North Dakota. Lawmakers also passed a related bill setting up a tax policy for marijuana. Both bills now go to the Senate. The...
North Dakota Bill Aimed at Curbing Catalytic Converter Thefts
Feb 23 2021 // North Dakota lawmakers are weighing a bill aimed at cutting down on an epidemic of catalytic converter thefts. The catalytic converters have become a hot item for thieves because of the precious metals inside. The devices,...
North Dakota Bills Would Shield Businesses from Virus Lawsuits
Jan 28 2021 // Some North Dakota lawmakers are pushing legislation aimed at shielding businesses and health care facilities from lawsuits over customers’ or employees’ COVID-19 exposure, despite criticism that it may be...
Judge Strikes Down North Dakota ‘Pore Space’ Law Backed by Oil, Gas Group
Jan 26 2021 // A judge has struck down a North Dakota’s law that landowners say takes away their property rights. The so-called pore space law passed the Legislature in 2019 after supporters sought clarification on the use of...
North Dakota Senate Won’t Hold Oil Execs Liable for Environmental Damage
Jan 22 2021 // The North Dakota Senate has rejected a bill that would have allowed the state to hold liable any corporate officer responsible for oil- and gas-related violations. The North Dakota Petroleum Council and the Greater North...
14 Tanks Burn in Explosion at North Dakota Oil Tank Battery
Jan 20 2021 // Authorities say an explosion at an oil tank battery near New Town, North Dakota, on Jan. 18 sent 14 tanks up in flames and caused oil and brine to spill. No injuries were reported. New Town Fire Chief John DeGroot said the...
Hurricane-Force Winds Caused Extensive Damage in North Dakota
Jan 19 2021 // A weather system packing hurricane-force wind gusts has caused extensive damage and power outages in western and central North Dakota. The National Weather Service reported wind gusts of 77 mph at Garrison, 81 mph in...
Legislation Aims to Strengthen North Dakota Seat Belt Law
Jan 12 2021 // A bipartisan group of lawmakers want to tighten North Dakota’s seat belt law to allow police to pull over anyone they see driving unbuckled — or any of their passengers. It’s the latest and the most...
Human Nature Thwarts Widespread Use of Apps Tracking Coronavirus Exposure
Dec 1 2020 // The app builders had planned for pranksters, ensuring that only people with verified COVID-19 cases could trigger an alert. They’d planned for heavy criticism about privacy, in many cases making the features as...
Workers at North Dakota Company Go on Strike over COVID-19 Safety Concerns
Nov 19 2020 // About 70 drivers and warehouse workers at a Fargo, N.D., food distributor have gone on strike because they don’t believe the company is doing enough to protect them from exposure to COVID-19. Members of Teamsters...
Nurses in North Dakota Worry About Working with Sick Colleagues
Nov 17 2020 // Like many medical workers around the world, the coronavirus pandemic is a burden that Fargo emergency room nurse Adam Johnston can’t escape. The grim reality follows him everywhere: at work, where people die every...
North Dakota Seeks to Use Coronavirus Aid for Fracking
Oct 23 2020 // North Dakota officials say they want to repurpose $16 million in federal coronavirus aid and spend it on grants to encourage fracking instead of using it to clean up abandoned oil well sites. Regulators have presented the...
121,000 Gallon Oil Spill Reported in North Dakota
Oct 21 2020 // North Dakota regulators say an equipment failure at a well near Watford City led to the release of more than 121,000 gallons of oil. The state’s Oil and Gas Division said it was notified of the spill on Sunday at the...
Family of Man Who Died After North Dakota Arrest Settles Lawsuit for $325K
Oct 16 2020 // The family of a man who died after being arrested by Valley City, N.D., police in 2018 has reached a settlement in a civil lawsuit against the city, Barnes County and two police officers. The family of 72-year-old Warren...
North Dakota Oil Patch Sees Exodus of Workers
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...
NTSB: Structural Failure Led to Deadly North Dakota Air Ambulance Crash
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...
North Dakota Dems Endorse New Candidate for Insurance Commissioner Post
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...
North Dakota High Court: Dem Insurance Commissioner Candidate Ineligible
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...
Judge: North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Candidate Not Eligible to Run
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...
