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FARGO -- Nationally, the number of students defaulting on government education loans is up for the sixth consecutive year. The national student loan default rate climbed to 10 percent for students who began paying back their federal student loans in fiscal year 2011 -- up from 9.1...

MANNING -- Dunn County commissioners authorized the payment of nearly $30,000 to Oxy USA Inc.

Amid news that it sold nearly $7 billion of petroleum-producing land and pipelines, oil and gas giant Chesapeake Energy continued to wait Friday for a decision on a motion for dismissal it filed in a lawsuit involving a Dickinson couple. In a case that has been moved from Stark County...

FARGO -- Sen. Kent Conrad, flanked by hospital administrators and a representative of the state's doctors, on Friday scolded anyone suggesting it would be easy to restore increased Medicare payments to North Dakota medical providers if the health reform law is repealed. The health...

FARGO -- To recoup an increase in unpaid costs, North Dakota nursing homes are eyeing an arcane state law that holds adult children financially responsible for their parents' care. "We've always seen that law as potentially a tool to help pay for parents' care, however under very...

FARGO -- Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota has signed contracts with two large health systems to begin paying providers based on rewarding better patient outcomes. The shift -- aimed at controlling costs and improving the quality of care -- alters the traditional "fee for service"...

BISMARCK (AP) -- Congressional pressure has forced a federal agency to clear a big backlog of oil royalty payments to the Three Affiliated Tribes and its members on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in western North Dakota, Sen.