BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Two members of the Standing Rock Sioux and a reservation priest are suing over a five-month shutdown of a North Dakota highway during protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline. The state shut down a stretch of Highway 1806 in October 2016, after a bridge was damaged by fires. It wasn’t reopened until March 2017, after…
MANDAN, ND (KFGO) – Two men, a father and his son, face drug charges after a weekend bust near Mandan. The Morton County Sheriff’s Office says a 53 year-old man from Vancouver, WA man his 24 year-old son, from Oregon, were stopped on I-94. Deputies seized more than 200 lbs. of pot with an estimated street value of $1.1-million dollars….
The number of arrests related to protests over construction of the pipeline has surpassed 600. The Morton County Sheriff’s Office says 16 people were arrested Monday and Tuesday in confrontations with police near the protesters’ main encampment near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. The charges range from criminal trespass, engaging in a riot, possession of marijuana, fleeing, assault on…
