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BISMARCK, North Dakota
Federal oil and gas lease sales in the Dakotas and Montana set a record in fiscal 2009, with parcels in western North Dakota's booming oil patch accounting for the overwhelming bulk of interest, the Bureau of Land Management said Monday.
Raising North Dakota's taxes on beer, wine and liquor would provide up to $2 million a year for programs that teach about the dangers of underage and binge drinking, says an advocate who wants a statewide vote on the issue.
North Dakota's budget director says the state's oil production and prices are both well ahead of state forecasts.
North Dakota is revisiting restrictions it placed on cattle imports from Minnesota nearly two years ago after bovine tuberculosis was detected in deer and cattle herds there, a state official said.
North Dakota's Public Service Commission says a fuel pipeline operator doesn't need a state certificate to do business.
North Dakota regulators, leery of a wind developer's request to locate six turbines less than a quarter-mile from rural homes, have scheduled a hearing for arguments about why they should grant it.
An industry study says biodiesel production could stop unless a federal $1-per-gallon tax credit is extended.
Young people are abusing prescription drugs with alarming frequency, sometimes during "pharm parties" where pills are set out like candy, a man whose son died of an overdose of painkillers told a conference Tuesday.
North Dakota farmers are looking for new ways to promote their products.
A federal judge has approved settlement talks in a decade-old discrimination lawsuit filed by American Indians against the U.S. Agriculture Department.
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