BLAKE NICHOLSON

May 16, 2019 at 10:40 am

Activists’ lawyers: Sheriff should defend anti-protest laws

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Attorneys for oil pipeline opponents are fighting a South Dakota sheriff's attempt to be dismissed as a defendant in a lawsuit...

Business

May 15, 2019 at 11:19 am

Judge: No site permit needed for refinery near national park

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota judge has ruled that regulators properly refrained from getting involved in a dispute over the location of an...

Business

May 14, 2019 at 11:14 am

Escalating trade war causing anxiety in America’s heartland

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — When President Donald Trump began talking about tariffs in 2017, Upper Midwest soybean farmer Jamie Beyer suspected that her crop could...

Business

May 7, 2019 at 9:25 am

South Dakota governor, Oglala Sioux in protests standoff

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Oglala Sioux and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem are each waiting for the other side to make a move to...

Business

May 2, 2019 at 4:25 pm

Tribe says South Dakota governor not welcome on reservation

A Native American tribe has told South Dakota's Republican Gov. Kristi Noem she's not welcome on one of largest reservations in the country after she...

Nation & World

April 29, 2019 at 1:35 pm

Sheriff seeks dismissal from lawsuit over anti-protest laws

A western South Dakota sheriff is seeking to be dismissed from a lawsuit challenging new state laws that target disruptive demonstrations by anti-oil pipeline activists....

Business

April 19, 2019 at 9:04 am

State defends South Dakota pipeline protest legislation

South Dakota's governor and attorney general are asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit challenging a new law that aims to prevent disruptive...

Business

April 19, 2019 at 7:30 am