Mercer News

Dec 7 2009 12:00AM http://sayanythingblog.com/index.php For some time now I've been writing about the Northern Plains Heritage Area controversy here in North Dakota .

Eds: APNewsNow. Will be led. Moving on general news and financial services. AP Photo ILSP504, ILSP502, ILSP501 By DAVID MERCER Associated Press Writer CHAMPAIGN, Ill.

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.

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Two North Dakota counties are getting federal money to fight methamphetamine. The state`s congressional delegation says Mercer and McLean counties are to share nearly $790,000 for a two-county narcotics task force.

As our North Dakota fields of wheat turn golden with promise, I am reminded of the quote by Hannah Flagg Gould: "Wisdom, power and goodness meet in the bounteous field of wheat." Is this not true? My parents were not farmers.

Some property owners in a five-county area bordering the Missouri River in North Dakota say they feel they were ambushed when the area picked up an overnight designation one that many can't seem to figure out.

Heavy rain has hit parts of western and central North Dakota, including Bismarck, leading to flooding warnings for small streams, underpasses and other low areas.

Eds: APNewsNow. Will be led. Bismarck , N.D. Gov. John Hoeven has rejected a proposed land purchase by Ducks Unlimited in McLean County .