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.

The Humane Society of the United States is offering a $2,500 reward for information in the apparent beating death of a 10-month-old puppy in Beach.

The Custer Military Trail Historic Archaeological District in western North Dakota has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Plea deals are being offered to five people charged in what North Dakota wildlife officials say is the worst case of illegal animal killings they have ever seen.