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    January 9, 2018
    The Great River Energy Coal Creek Station coal plant near the Falkirk mine outside of Underwood, N.D., is the largest power plant in North Dakota Michael Vosburg / Forum News Service
    Industry 'disappointed' by rejection of federal coal proposal
    BISMARCK — The hopes of North Dakota's coal industry were dashed Monday, Jan. 8, when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission unanimously...
    businessJanuary 9, 2018 - 5:42pm
    September 27, 2017
    Crews use a mobile thermal desorption unit to "bake" oil out of soil that was contaminated by the oil pipeline spill discovered Sept. 29, 2013, near Tioga, N.D. Andeavor, formerly known as Tesoro Logistics, had spent $73 million on cleanup as of February 2017. Amy Dalrymple / Bismarck Tribune
    4 years later, crews completing cleanup of ND's largest oil pipeline spill
    TIOGA, N.D. — Four years after discovering North Dakota's largest oil pipeline spill, Steve and Patty Jensen are looking forward to removing...
    newsSeptember 27, 2017 - 1:54pm
    Steve Walcott, vice president of sales in agricultural products for Big Dutchman USA, of Holland, Mich., talks about egg-laying equipment and a shift to cage-free. Mikkel Pates / Forum News Service
    Cage-free chicken option presents challenges, opportunities for farmers, manufacturers
    ST. PAUL, Minn. — A shift toward cage-free egg-laying has created challenges for egg farmers and manufacturers — as well as opportunities....
    newsMarch 27, 2017 - 12:00pm
    October 25, 2016
    Leaves of marijuana plants to extract the hemp fiber that is often used in traditional Japanese clothes and accessories, are seen at Japan's largest legal marijuana farm in Kanuma, Tochigi prefecture, Japan July 5, 2016. Picture taken July 5, 2016. REUTERS/Issei Kato
    Hemp may be next gold mine for Native American tribes
    Casinos on Native American land have poured billions into tribal economies since the late 1980s, lifting many people from poverty. Now, some...
    news/nationOctober 25, 2016 - 10:54am
    April 15, 2016
    Joe Zayden, the Bakken region operations manager for Flow Data, had a booth Thursday at the Bakken Oil Product & Service Show at the West River Ice Center in Dickinson. He said his company is weathering the slowdown by “basically just trying to maintain what we have.” Though, he added, “We ain’t going anywhere,” Zayden said. (Dustin Monke / The Dickinson Press)
    In lean times for oil industry, salespeople bear down
    Charnel Zetsch came to Dickinson State University on a softball scholarship seven years ago. She arrived in the early days of the oil boom and...
    business/energy-and-miningApril 15, 2016 - 5:26pm
    October 7, 2015
    Representatives from Fisher Industries interact with a Trinity High School student at the Manufacturing Expo and Day Fair in Dickinson Wednesday. (Press Photo by Andrew Haffner)
    Local companies hold expo for student outreach
    Local manufacturers gathered for Dickinson’s first-ever Manufacturing Day Fair and Expo on Wednesday at the Biesiot Activities Center. The...
    newsOctober 7, 2015 - 11:37pm
    September 23, 2015
    Businesses say North Dakota friendly to UAS industry
    GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- When it comes to doing business in North Dakota, members of the unmanned aircraft systems industry say it's the openness and passion state officials and residents show for the technology that brings them here. Representatives from four companies elaborated...
    newsSeptember 23, 2015 - 11:46pm
    Pat Ritzke, who started a new career as a mail carrier after 33 years in the oil industry, sorts packages for his route in Williston on Thursday. (FNS Photo by Amy Dalrymple)
    Former oil industry manager finds job in post office
    WILLISTON – A former oil industry manager who was laid off earlier this year is enjoying a perk of his new job with the U.S. Postal Service...
    newsAugust 23, 2015 - 1:01am
    May 13, 2015
    Elizabeth Vreswyk, Renee Townsend, Alan Anderson and Paul Steffes sit on the panel discussion Wednesday for the shale energy industry workshop at the Strom Center. (Andrew Wernette / The Dickinson Press)
    DSU hosts workshop on small business in the Bakken
    There’s an art to business, especially in the Bakken. Multiple voices gave insight on small businesses in the shale energy sector during a...
    business/energy-and-miningMay 13, 2015 - 10:14pm
    March 7, 2015
    Jill Healy, Trial Runners’ co-founder and chief operating officer, looks over resumes in her Dickinson office on Wednesday.
    Trial Runners continues to expand
    Few Dickinson businesses felt the impact of the Great Recession. As stock prices fell, the national housing market crashed and consumer confidence...
    businessMarch 7, 2015 - 10:06pm
    Press Photo by Virginia Grantier Glenn Baranko, 41, president and CEO of Baranko Bros. Inc., stands in his company’s equipment yard north of Dickinson on Wednesday. He continues to oversee the dirt-moving company started in 1967 by his dad, Emil Baranko and his Uncle Ernie Baranko, on the family’s cattle ranch north of Belfield.
    Still in the family: Need for dams on their ranch started Baranko Bros.' earth-moving company
    It was a dam quandary. Nearing 50 years ago, two brothers wanted a network of stock dams constructed on the family ranch so they could run...
    businessMarch 7, 2015 - 10:03pm
    February 28, 2015
    Decision on plastic plant location may be delayed
    JAMESTOWN — Decisions on the potential location of a $4 billion plastics plant are likely to be delayed until later this year, according to Shane Goettle, project consultant for Badlands NGL. Badlands NGL announced its intention to build the factory in October. The company indicated...
    business/energy-and-miningFebruary 28, 2015 - 10:36pm
    October 14, 2014
    FNS File Photo The Great Plains Synfuels Plant near Beulah is the nation's only commercial scale coal gasification plant. Officials hope a partnership between the oil and coal industry can be formed to enhance production of both commodities.
    Bakken oilfields may spawn new industry
    BISMARCK — Working relationships between energy and other industries in North Dakota were touted Tuesday as the future of the state’s economy...
    business/energy-and-miningOctober 14, 2014 - 11:08pm
    September 23, 2014
    Richardton OKs Halliburton sand plant
    RICHARDTON -- The city of Richardton has given final and unanimous approval to the rezoning of 300 acres west of town for a future Halliburton frac sand plant and transloading facility. The company is ready to start construction on the project and hopes to be running trucks by...
    newsSeptember 23, 2014 - 11:59am
    June 14, 2014
    Press Photo by Mike Hricik A well pumps away Saturday near a farm west of Dickinson. The oil and gas industry has taken the No. 1 spot as North Dakota’s top economic driver.
    Oil is king: Crude, gas industry surpasses agriculture as North Dakota’s top economic driver
    FARGO — Activities associated with oil and gas extraction have knocked the agricultural sector from its pedestal topping North Dakota’s economy. That,...
    newsJune 14, 2014 - 10:23pm
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