Mountrail County Record News
North Dakota enhancing oil field oversight
With additional staffing requested by Gov. Jack Dalrymple and authorized by the 2011 Legislature, North Dakota will become one of the nation’s top 10 states in regulatory oversight of its oil and gas industry within six months.
Parshall grads say farewell to high school
Nineteen students spent their last day in Parshall High School Sunday among family and friends in a formal ceremony marking their completion of high school in North Dakota.
Crop deadline extension proposed
Now that we are in the second half of May and just a month away from the summer solstice, there is mounting pressure to get crops seeded as soon as possible.
Cenex, Whiting sign agreement
Cenex Harvest States has contracted with Whiting Oil and Gas Corp., Denver, to be the marketer of the propane and butane produced by Whiting’s new Robinson Lake fractionation plant located near Belden in Mountrail County.
Taxable sales and purchases skyrocket
Taxable sales and purchases took a huge leap skyward in Mountrail County in the fourth quarter of 2010.
Record receives 15 awards at newspaper convention
Once again the Mountrail County Record has catapulted itself to the top of the heap among small newspapers in North Dakota.
Celebrate Arbor Day today
North Dakota has always had a lack of trees and although Arbor Day began during territorial days in 1872, it has only been in recent years that locals have taken Arbor Day seriously.
What a mess!
While most people were protecting their property from flood water not seen in North Dakota since 1997, nobody was expecting an intense late-season storm that slammed most of the western third of North Dakota with heavy rain, freezing rain, heavy snowfall and gale-force wind.
Vilsack announces broadband investments
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced last week in Denver the support for telecommunications projects in seven states including North Dakota to improve broadband service to rural residents and businesses.
Debate, scrutiny inundates ‘fracking’ disclosure on BLM land
The hydraulic fracturing debate heated up April 20 when an uncommon group of panelists trackled tricky issues and tough questions at the Bureau of Land Management’s hydraulic fracturing forum.
