counties in North Dakota

Cass County to consider closing polls an hour earlier ... FARGO — Cass County Auditor Mike Montplaisir is asking for feedback as officials consider whether the county should close Election Day polling places ... "We thought we'd ask the question because all the other North Dakota counties close at 7 p.m.".

Media reps tout value of publishing N.D. counties' public notices ... Legislators of the interim Judiciary Committee heard a range of concerns Monday related to a bill draft that would allow North Dakota county governments to publish their meetings' minutes on their websites rather than in the official local ...

Newspaper industry officials say a bill that would allow North Dakota county governments to publish meeting minutes on their websites rather than in ... Jack McDonald, legal counsel for the North Dakota Newspaper Association, said publishing minutes exclusively on websites could make it harder for the ...

Mike Beard, R-Shakopee, is pushing a bill to eliminate that restriction, saying Minnesota needs affordable electrical power from North Dakota plants fueled by lignite coal. It also would allow new coal-fired power plants in Minnesota, although companies wanting new plants still would need to receive state ...

... Cars Derail, Tip in Dickey County. Crews are working to clean up corn spilled from seven train cars in southeastern North Dakota. ... in southeastern North Dakota. Officials say four cars on the train derailed and the seven cars of corn tipped over Tuesday night in the Dickey County community of Oakes.

Initial estimates indicate about 10 barrels of produced water and two barrels of oil were released, with two barrels of produced water and six gallons of crude oil impacting Spring Creek. Personnel from the health department and North Dakota Industrial Commission are inspecting the site and will continue to ...

Among the counties with major urban centers, Ward County, which includes Minot, experienced the biggest estimated population loss, a reduction of 1,207. The loss was typical of counties in or near North Dakota's Oil Patch, Iverson said. "We showed out-migration for a lot of western counties," he said, ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) The North Dakota Department of Health is inspecting the site of a crude oil spill in McKenzie County. The department was notified Sunday, the day the spill was discovered. Officials say the spill resulted from equipment failure in the treater unit on a well pad. The well is owned by ...

Phillips was among the last of the protesters encamped near the Cannonball River in southern Morton County when law enforcement evicted the camps from ... to Saylor, but as counsel to two appellants, he said he'll make sure First Amendment rights to assemble and protest are protected in North Dakota.

... Service North Dakota data from last year's third quarter, the most recently available information. Rising above the state rate of 8.5 percent, Grand Forks County ranks fourth in the state for percentage of food services and accommodation employees, falling only behind the counties of Billings (16.8 percent), ...

BILLINGS -- A man was arrested in North Dakota Friday over a month after he allegedly fired shots at another driver in northeast Montana. Levi Newton, 23, was apprehended Friday in Williston, according to the Roosevelt County Sheriff's Office Facebook page. Newton was wanted for a shooting near ...

FARGO, N.D. — Cass County is one of many counties across North Dakota to crack down on drunk driving this month. In a partnership with the North Dakota Department of Transportation, the county looks to raise awareness and visibility through the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign.

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USG Bakken Midstream, an affiliate of NextEra Energy Resources, reported the spill that was discovered Sunday about 3 miles north of Fortuna in far northwest North Dakota. It occurred at an above-ground portion of the pipeline, said Bill Suess, spill investigation program manager for the Department of ...

Dakota Access LLC still owns about 7,000 acres of ranchland along the pipeline route in Morton County, a year after most protesters left the area and several ... The North Dakota Attorney General's Office, which has said it will continue reviewing how the pipeline company's ownership of the ranch complies ...