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Oil Patch concealed carry permit numbers up: Sheriff: License worth it for not getting fined or goin

May 17, 2013 at 03:07PM

If an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, then, in the case of weapons in North Dakota, less than $100 paid for a concealed carry permit is worth a $2,000 fine, a year in jail or both. Well, it’s definitely the cheaper of the two.

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ND gas prices rising rapidly; AAA says no relief in sight until after Memorial Day | The Dickinson P

May 17, 2013 at 03:06PM

The T-Rex Conoco station in Dickinson may have lucked out when the digital sign it uses to advertise gas prices went out recently. Although customers still had to pay the $3.99 for a gallon of regular unleaded gas Thursday, at least they didn’t have to see what they were paying in big red numbers.

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New Chaplain for NDNG on KFYR-TV North Dakota’s NBC News Leader

May 17, 2013 at 03:06PM

The North Dakota National Guard has a new chaplain in its ranks, and for the first time in seven years, it`s a Catholic. Monsignor Chad Gion is now also First Lieutenant Chad Gion and will be one of six chaplains in the North Dakota National Guard Chaplain Corps by the end of the summer. He

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Energy Outreach donates to After School Program

May 17, 2013 at 03:05PM

Energy Outreach Williston, supported by Schlumberger, Statoil, Baker Hughes, Halliburton, Nabors and Oasis, will donate $60,000 over the next two years to the After School Program.

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Growth of North Dakota tuberculosis outbreak slows

May 16, 2013 at 08:00PM

The state Health Department reports there have been four new cases of active tuberculosis in the state this year. There were 20 last year in Grand Forks County.

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Bachmann: IRS scandal ‘far worse than Watergate’

May 16, 2013 at 05:54PM

Find breaking political news & commentary from Minneapolis, St. Paul, the Twin Cities metro area and Minnesota.

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Sheriff: Body identified as Jack Sjol, murder charges filed

May 16, 2013 at 04:30PM

3:04 p.m.: Murder charges have been filed against Ryan Lee Stensaker, 33, a Class AA felony for intentionally causing the death of another human being.

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Police looking for one runaway

May 16, 2013 at 12:06PM

A runaway has been reported to the Williston Police Department.

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Rail said to be able to handle North Dakota oil boom

May 16, 2013 at 12:02PM

There’s enough rail capacity to get crude oil out of North Dakota even though the state continues to set production records, the state’s oil commission said.

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Legal challenges begin against North Dakota anti-abortion laws | The Raw Story

May 16, 2013 at 12:01PM

Abortion rights activists filed the first legal challenges Wednesday against North Dakota’s draconian new anti-abortion laws. According to the Associated Press, attorneys for the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit in state court challenging a state law requiring that physicians who perfo…

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