CoronavirusWith the order now declared null, North Dakota is again out of step with CDC recommendations. The agency's website says close contacts should get tested for COVID-19, and "asymptomatic contacts testing negative should self-quarantine for 14 days from their last exposure." Written By: Jeremy Turley | Sep 24th 2020 - 9pm. × North Dakota Gov.…
In this Feb. 23, 2014, file photo Jason Ravnsborg speaks in Sioux Falls, S.D. | AP Photo/Dirk Lammers South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg thought he had hit a deer in a car crash Saturday night. But by the next morning, it turned out he'd hit a man. Ravnsborg reported to the local county sheriff…
Officials inside and outside South Dakota are expressing concern about the potential spread of the coronavirus during an annual motorcycle rally that opened Friday in the Black Hills and typically attracts hundreds of thousands of bikers. But officials in Sturgis, the town of 7,000 residents that has hosted the rally for 80 years, are not…
The nation may be awash in oil and natural gas, but U.S. pipelines are running on fumes after three high-profile conduits ran aground in 24 hours, the victims of Obama-appointed judges and regulatory uncertainty under the possibility of a climate-woke Biden presidency. In Monday’s triple whammy, a federal judge ordered the three-year-old Dakota Access Pipeline…
The ruling, a victory for the Native American and environmentalist groups who oppose the pipeline, said that it must be emptied of oil by Aug. 5.Construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016. That year, the project inspired intense protests that lasted for months.Credit...Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune, via Associated PressJuly 6, 2020Updated 2:43 p.m. ETThe…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…