Environment

The Painted Canyon Overlook at Theodore Roosevelt National Park will open after all. Two weeks ago spokesmen reported the overlook, a victim of budget sequestering, would not open in the spring as scheduled. Wednesday, park Superintendent Valerie Naylor said she has preliminary approval from Washington, D...

UPDATE: the project is on hold for now... A friend calls it, "the revenge of the robber barons"... Sadly, it takes a lot to get stoical North Dakotans to stand up and speak out.  I'm hoping this will do it. An oil company has staked out an oil pad less than a mile from the site of Teddy Roosevelt's Elkhorn Ranch cabin...