Gwinner News

North Dakota 's unemployment insurance rate will stay the same for a majority of businesses in 2010, even though benefit payments more than doubled this year, a Job Service North Dakota administrator said.

Bobcat Co. is preparing to permanently shutter its Bismarck plant this month and has begun moving equipment - but not union workers - to its factory in Gwinner.

William Phillips moved from New York with his last $600. William Phillips boarded a Greyhound bus in Utica, N.Y., with a one-way ticket and his last $600. He'd been studying at State University of New York Institute of Technology until his financial-aid package collapsed in the credit crunch.

Organizer Bill Harbort describes the name of the Minot State University's NOTSTOCK as "a synthesis of a number of ideas." "There's Woodstock, of course, a three-day celebration of music, peace and art," he said.

FOR BOBCAT, THAT SLUMP MEANS CONSOLIDATION: A BISMARK ASSEMBLY LINE THAT EMPLOYED NEARLY 500 WORKERS WILL SHUT DOWN BY YEAR'S END.

It was a sugar-infused affair at Norsk Hstfest Saturday morning as hundreds of people clamored into Reykjavik Hall to witness the crowning of this year's Scandinavian Pie Contest winner.

A man accused of embezzling millions of dollars from a Bismarck company will have to pay back taxes and serve more than four years in prison.

Union officials say they've reached a tentative agreement with Bobcat Co., on the terms of severance for 475 workers who will lose their jobs when the company closes its Bismarck plant by year's end.

Bobcat has announced plans to close its Bismarck plant by the end of the year and move its operations to Gwinner, in southeastern North Dakota .

Here is the latest North Dakota news from The Associated Press Bismarck , N.D. An analyst says the South Korea -based parent company of Bobcat Co., has been hurt by a global economic slump and by debt it took on when it purchased Bobcat two years ago.

The states with the lowest unemployment rates are North Dakota , South Dakota and Nebraska .

Bobcat to Consolidate Operations in North Dakota Bobcat Company announced last week that it is transferring all North American machinery production to its original manufacturing facility in Gwinner , N.D. This will result in discontinuing production at Bobcat's Bismarck , N.D. , plant by the end of 2009.

Hoeven says the plan4 closing is proof tha4 we are battling the national recession here.

Many employees say they weren`t surprised by Wednesday`s announcement. The Bismarck plant has laid off workers more than once in the last couple years.

It's bad for Bismarck, but some say the changes are a much needed chance for Gwinner to come back after recent cuts to its plant.

Bobcat Co., which makes small loaders and light construction equipment, announced Wednesday its Bismarck plant will be closed permanently and the bulk of the 475 jobs shifted to its plant in Gwinner in southeastern North Dakota.

THE COMPANY, WHICH MAKES SMALL LOADERS AND LIGHT CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT, SAYS ITS BISMARCK PLANT WILL CLOSE BY THE END OF THE YEAR.

Bobcat Co., which makes small loaders and light construction equipment, announced Wednesday its Bismarck plant will be closed permanently and the bulk of the 475 jobs shifted to its plant in Gwinner in southeastern North Dakota.

IS HOLDING NEWS CONFERENCES IN BISMARCK AND WEST FARGO TO DISCUSS ITS MANUFACTURING BUSINESS.

Union officials say Bobcat Co. is planning to lay off more than 100 workers, most of them at its plant in Gwinner, southwest of Fargo.