July 8, 2014
Weekend storms caused heavy damage at a Missouri River recreation area south of Bismarck, N.D., and injured people at a lake southwest of the city. Several tents, campers and vehicles were destroyed by strong winds and falling trees at Kimball …
June 27, 2014
Authorities are accusing a Mandan, N.D., woman of filing more than $7,000 in fraudulent insurance claims for chiropractic services. Greg Nelson with the North Dakota Insurance Department’s fraud unit says the woman worked for Active Life Chiropractic between 2007 and …
May 29, 2014
A man convicted in what witnesses called one of the largest credit card schemes in U.S. history says he should receive more than $4 million for injuries he allegedly suffered from a fall outside the Cass County Jail in Fargo. …
May 15, 2014
North Dakota has the country’s highest death rate for workers in the oil, gas and mining sector, at more than six times the national average, and an even higher rate among construction workers, according to a new report from the …
May 13, 2014
A company accused of falsely advertising the health benefits of its nationally distributed Dreamfields Pasta line has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit and pay $5 million to consumers who bought the products in the last decade. The complaint, …
May 12, 2014
A Bismarck home was damaged by an early morning fire, and firefighters believe it started in a compost bin on a porch. The Bismarck Tribune reports that firefighters responded to the blaze early Friday morning. Firefighters extinguished the blaze and …
May 9, 2014
An administrative law judge in North Dakota has made permanent a cease and desist order issued by Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm against insurance producer Frederick Paul Skoda, formerly of Fargo, N.D., now of Detroit Lakes, Minn. The Dec. 26, 2013, …
May 6, 2014
Motorists routinely may see fellow drivers texting and driving, but police rarely do, making enforcement of North Dakota’s distracted driving law difficult to enforce, authorities say. “When a squad car is in the area, a driver usually will hide the …
May 2, 2014
The nation’s largest labor federation says North Dakota continues to have the highest worker death rate in the U.S., with 17.7 fatalities per 100,000 employees in 2012. The data comes from an AFL-CIO report slated to be released next week. …
April 21, 2014
A Wyoming-based trucking company working in North Dakota could face fines of $2 million or more for operating without a license and illegally dumping saltwater, a byproduct of oil production, two North Dakota state agencies said Tuesday. “Companies should take …