By Katherine Lymn  Bakken Oil Express will expand to the west with an industrial rail park after its rezoning was approved for a site west of town Thursday. The Stark County zoning board also denied an agricultural-to-industrial rezoning request from Northern Improvement Company, which wants to relocate its hot mix asphalt plant from a site on Highway 22 to a site ...

Article by: JENNIFER BROOKS , Star Tribune       Minnesota is hoping the drones that will soon be circling the skies over North Dakota will deliver an economic boost to this state, as well. North Dakota beat Minnesota this week in the race to be named one of the Federal Aviation Administration’s first six test sites of new commercial ...

By: Mike Nowatzki, Forum News Service, INFORUM CASSELTON, N.D. – While they’ve never experienced a train disaster of the magnitude seen in Monday’s fiery crash near here, Cass County residents are no strangers to train derailments. The county led North Dakota with 30 train derailments from January 2000 through October 2013, and nearly half of the county’s 37 overall train accidents ...

By BRIAN GEHRING | Bismarck Tribune Bismarck Tribune A Mandan man was arrested for drunken driving and minor in consumption New Year’s Day after the vehicle he was driving struck a power pole west of Stage Stop. Benjamin Alphons Kraft, 18, was charged Thursday with Class B misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence and minor in consumption. He pleaded ...

By: Paul H. Myerchin, Bismarck, INFORUM It’s clear: North Dakotans want to protect and enhance the quality of North Dakota’s great outdoors for our children and grandchildren. The overwhelming interest in the state’s new conservation funding program comes as no surprise to those of us supporting the Clean Water, Wildlife and Parks Amendment. The fact that applications are double what ...

Thu Jan 2, 2014 3:05pm EST By Patrick Rucker WASHINGTON Jan 2 (Reuters) – Crude oil produced in North Dakota may be more flammable and prone to explosions than earlier thought, U.S. officials said on Thursday as they examine whether gas trapped in crude-by-rail shipments could explain a spate of fiery accidents. In the latest mishap involving fuel produced in ...

By John D. Taylor Marlo (Lindsey) Stubbs, Crosby’s new massage therapist, says she felt called to pursue this blend of art and medical science that makes patients feel oh so good. The 34-year-old mother of two, a Crosby native, has spent much of her professional life helping people feel better and live more independently. She was working as an Occupational ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Much of North Dakota is under wind chill advisories or warnings. The National Weather Service says wind chill values are hitting 25 below to 40 below in many areas on Monday morning. It’s colder along and north of the Highway 2 corridor, where wind chills near 45 below zero are expected Monday morning in Williston, Crosby, ...

Tue Dec 31, 2013 8:27pm EST By Alicia Underlee Nelson FARGO, N.D., Dec 31 (Reuters) – The railcars carrying crude oil that crashed into a derailed grain train in North Dakota on Monday were all older types that do not meet the latest industry safety standards, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday. Robert Sumwalt, who ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Public Service Commission has set three public hearings for a proposed pipeline that would move North Dakota oil to Minnesota and Wisconsin. The hearings for Enbridge Energy’s Sandpiper pipeline are slated for Feb. 19 in Grand Forks; Feb. 20 in Devils Lake; and Feb. 27 in Minot. The Calgary, Alberta-based company is proposing the ...