BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Thousands of North Dakotans have already voted ahead of the Nov. 4 election. Secretary of State Al Jaeger says North Dakota’s county auditors have mailed out nearly 54,000 applications for absentee ballots, and more than 18,000 people have returned them. Jaeger says just before noon Friday […]

 OAKES, N.D. (AP) – An Oakes man who crashed his pickup truck into a house earlier this year has been convicted on charges of reckless endangerment and impaired driving, along with drug-related counts.        Authorities say the truck driven by 38-year-old Dale Smith Jr. went through the home’s dining […]

 OAKES, N.D. (AP) – Police in the southeastern North Dakota city of Oakes have arrested a man they say escaped from custody in Texas.        Sixty-three-year-old Reymundo Leyva (LAY’-vah), of Crystal City, Texas, faces armed robbery, weapons and parole violation charges in that state.        Police tell NewsDakota.com […]

WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s top oil regulator says recent global oil price drops could potentially halt drilling in several of the state’s counties and force the state to reevaluate its budget. Lynn Helms is director of the North Dakota Industrial Commission Department of Mineral Resources. Helms says it’s […]

 WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – The number of HIV and AIDS cases in North Dakota has grown dramatically in recent years as workers from across the country have flocked to the state because of its booming economy.        The state Health Department says there were 166 HIV and AIDS patients […]

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A company says it plans to build a $4 billion factory in North Dakota that will convert natural gas liquids into plastic.    Badlands NGL President William Gilliam (GIHL’-ee-uhm), Gov. Jack Dalrymple and Sen. John Hoeven announced the project on Monday at the state Capitol in […]

FARGO (CSi)  On Friday October 10, 2013  the North Dakota Highway　Patrol conducted a sobriety checkpoint Dickey Count. The checkpoint was held from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm at the junction of North Dakota State Highways 1 and 11. A total of 63 vehicles drove through the checkpoint. There were no […]

BISMARCK (CSi) – U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp, Chairwoman of the Senate Subcommittee that oversees the Rural Utilities Service (RUS), today issued the following statement after Jasper Schneider was named Acting Administrator of RUS at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). RUS is the federal agency tasked with supporting and expanding […]