Berthold News

A crude-bearing cache known as the Birdbear, beneath North Dakota's already booming oil patch, can be tapped using new technology that would expand horizontal drilling to parts of the state that have never seen it, geologists believe.

BISMARCK Despite five months of depressed drilling activity, Lynn Helms, director of the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources, is optimistic about the future of oil development in North Dakota.

In January, the college will offer emergenc9 medical technician training. Officials also are working on offering other training in the future, such as for paramedics and for workers in medical records and electronic billing.

An eagle feather warbonnet made by a Fort Berthold Reservation resident was presented last week to Rep.

Marcus Levings, chairman of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold in North Dakota, poses a question to US President Barack Obama at the White House Tribal Nations Conference at the US Department of Interior in Washington on Thursday.

A group wants to set up a health care cooperative that would include most of North Dakota`s oil-producing counties.

In 2003, he graduated from Bemidji High School, and decided to enlist into the United States Army.

Shirley Ann Boucher, 73, Minot, died Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, in a Minot nursing home.

Motorists who are wondering why they are still navigating construction zones this late in the fall can blame the weather.

A man who bought a bald eagle that was shot on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation has been given two years probation.

Oleg Vasilyevich Romenskiy's warm personality and zany sense of humor comes through loud and clear even through a translator.

In a months time virtually no harvesting has taken place across North Central North Dakota , despite a great many acres of Corn , sunflowers and Soybeans still standing.

The Three Affiliated Tribes have been awarded $6.4 million in federal stimulus funds from the Bureau of Reclamation for rural water projects.

The Three Affiliated Tribes Business Council and Chairman Marcus Levings are holding informational meetings in each of the six communities on the Fort Berthold Reservation over the next week.

A 15-million dollar project to bring quality water to the city of Parshall and the people of eastern areas of the Fort Berthold Reservation was officially started today.

"There's a lot of sunflowers a lot of soybeans... thank goodness i4 froze in the las4 couple weeks jus4 because they weren't drying down.

The missile wing commander at North Dakota's Minot Air Force Base was relieved of his command Wednesday after a series of missteps at the unit, including two crashes of vehicles carrying missile parts in just more than a year.

The military released a report this week relaying the cause of an accident involving an overturned semitrailer earlier this summer.

Cheryl Kulas, retired executive director of the North Dakota Indian Affairs Commission, and Denise Juneau, a former New Town teacher and now Montana state superintendent of Public Instruction, will be honored with prestigious awards by the National Indian Education Association at its convention Oct.

The past several years biofuel has been at the forefront of talks as a solution to breaking our dependency on fossil fuels.