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KXMA-TV Dickinson
State health officials say Burleigh County has a probable case of swine flu North Dakota's first. The Health Department has identified the person only as a Burleigh County resident who is recovering at home. DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) The Stark
North Dakota Legislature: A quieter year for hunting and fishing issues
Grand Forks Herald
Young deer hunters can go afield at an earlier age, habitual fish and game offenders face harsher penalties and nonresident small game hunters still are limited to two seven-day periods on their licenses. Those are some of the outcomes of...
North Dakota organic flour mill company expanding
BusinessWeek
A flour mill company is spreading out in Harvey. Earth Harvest Mills held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday. The federal Agriculture Department's Rural Development director, Jasper Schneider, said three loans through the agency provided $2.2...
Dorgan secures funding for North Dakota oil study
Grand Forks Herald
U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan announced today that the U.S. Department of Energy has released $456,992 in federal funding he secured for a study aimed at determining how North Dakota can increase its oil refining capacity and ensure consumers...
Letter to the editor: State officials making N.D. better place to do ...
Jamestown Sun
They say that time changes things, but in North Dakota, Gov. John Hoeven is all about creating change — progressive, productive, farsighted change that is making a real difference in North Dakota. He is 100 percent pro agriculture, 100 perc...
Dakotas 2 Largest Health Care Systems Merge
ABC News
Officials say it will cover 130,000 square miles, including parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska. Executives of Sanford and MeritCare said it is the nation's largest not-for-profit rural health care provider bas...
Police: 3 North Dakota college softball players found dead in their ...
Pioneer Press
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Bye Week For North Dakota State Football, Bison at Indiana State on ...
NDSU Bison Athletics
Shamen Washington and North Dakota State have this weekend off. The Bison play at Indiana State on Nov. 14. North Dakota State University (2-7, 1-5 Valley Football) is scheduled to play Indiana State University (1-8, 1-5 Valley Football) at...
Rain, snow continues to delay ND harvest
San Jose Mercury News
FARGO, N.D.—Rain and snow continue to delay the harvest of late season crops in North Dakota. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says statewide, on average, there were three days suitable for field work last week. Soybeans, sugar beet and d...
UND nickname deadline still a toss up
Mitchellrepublic.com
GRAND FORKS, N.D. – The chairman of North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux Tribe says resolving the controversy surrounding the University of North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux nickname is not a top priority for his administration. In addition, the ...
Report: Barbed wire can be deadly to sage grouse
Seattle Times
The department is experimenting with ways to make barbed wire fences more visible to sage grouse. Sage grouse are found in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, South Dakota and Wyoming, as we...
Cell Phones
Chicago Tribune
DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) — Dive teams found no trace of three missing college softball players during a search Tuesday of a North Dakota lake where the women often went star gazing as authorities focused on tracing two cell phone calls made jus...
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KXMA-TV Dickinson
Roxana Saberi's lawyer says he's optimistic the verdict against her in Iran will be changed. The lawyer says he was allowed to defend Saberi in her court appeal yesterday and expects the a decision in a few days. He called the court atmosph...