Too busy filling out your bracket for March Madness to keep up with the news? We get it -- we were too. Catch up on last week's biggest stories here:
The $1 million man...er, dinosaur: The Barnes County Museum risks losing one of North Dakota’s oldest residents, a 65-million-year-old fossil triceratops named Bob (of course), unless it can raise $1.4 million to pay the privately funded business that owns him. The almost-complete skeleton was found in Bowman County 2003 and took 11 years to excavate. So, anyone have a spare million sitting around?
Big decisions for development: Both the cities of Dickinson and Belfield made some major decisions that could impact the future of development -- in Dickinson’s case, private, in Belfield’s, public. The Dickinson City Commission approved at its Monday meeting last week the first reading of a rezoning petition for the sprawling Barons Vista subdivision in northwest Dickinson, even after Planning and Zoning Commissioners hit a stalemate last month and forwarded the petition without recommendation.
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Belfield announced updated road tax projections for its city-wide street improvements initiative. Due to the Legislature’s surge funding headed toward oil-producing counties and hub cities, Belfield city leaders said the total cost of the special assessment will be $7.9 million, down from $11 million, and will cost landowners included in the project 98 cents per square foot.
Dark forecast: The latest oil tax revenues presented to legislatures drops the projected revenue by nearly $1 billion , putting estimated oil-tax collection at $3.4 billion for the biennium.
Critical mass: Despite the decline in oil production in North Dakota, the state is still producing too much oil -- by as much as 1 million barrels per day -- the top regulator says, and oil storage is becoming harder to come by. Storage tanks could be full within the next two months , by some estimates.
Let’s hear it for the boys: The New England Tigers round out one of their most successful seasons in nearly 20 years to take 8th in State Class B boys basketball . Head coach Luke Powers takes home the North Dakota Class B head coach of the year honors.
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‘Sorry’ not sorry: Bernies Esquire Club in downtown Dickinson confirms 90s rockers Buckcherry will appear in an exclusive concert next month. Time to bust out those black t-shirts and skull necklaces -- you knew you held on to them for a reason.
