Environment

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Scientists are questioning the methodology used in estimating the amount of crude oil that recently leaked from a ruptured pipeline into a northwestern North Dakota wheat field.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota regulators have approved plans for a $300 million wind farm project in southwestern Adams County.

Further sale of deer licenses for North Dakota is on hold due to an outbreak of epizootic hemorrhagic disease, or EHD.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development agency is giving a total of $17 million in federal grants and loans to eight water improvement projects in North Dakota.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A summer survey indicates that North Dakota's pheasant population is down about 30 percent from last year.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Haitian leaders with the Haiti Solar Oven Partners project plan to visit 29 United Methodist churches in the Dakotas this month to thank the congregations and build support for the effort.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Conservation advocates who want to set aside a bigger slice of North Dakota's oil revenues for an outdoor heritage fund have taken the next step toward bringing the idea to a public vote.

WEST FARGO, N.D. (AP) — One of North Dakota's fastest growing cities is looking at building a $21 to $30 million pool that officials say would rival most facilities in the Upper Midwest.

WALHALLA, N.D. (AP) — State and local officials are hosting a fossil dig at the Pembina River Gorge in northeastern North Dakota this week.

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — Drought that devastated crops and pastures in much of the Upper Midwest last year didn't stop the price of farmland from shooting higher, especially in North Dakota.