North Dakota's decades-long efforts to aid farmers by reshaping the weather through “cloud seeding” is facing fierce opposition in the state Capitol, where legislation could outlaw the practice, which is used across the West and has drawn global interest to one of the nation's least populous states.

The Lava Ridge project, spanning 57,447 acres across south-central Idaho’s public lands, is paused until further review.

When thinking of winter camping, North Dakota may not come to mind, but the state is ranked third in accessibility and affordability.

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline 10 states fund prisons using stolen Indigenous lands on Jan 28, 2025.

A trial is scheduled to begin Monday in Bismarck over North Dakota's ban on gender-affirming medical care for kids

The agency expects a minor or greater geomagnetic storm—a disturbance of Earth’s magnetic field—on Saturday, which increases the likelihood of northern lights displays being visible to more people, as the effects of a recent coronal mass ejection reach Earth, according to NOAA’s three-day forecast.

A crew of four from the Northern Lakes Fire District returned on Tuesday after being deployed to LA to help fight the devastating wildfires.

Dakota Wesleyan University recently released its fall 2024 dean's list which includes 22 graduate students and 381 undergraduate students. To qualify for the graduate dean's list, students must have completed nine hours of graded coursework with a term GPA of 3.

The Old Farmer's Almanac, which has been in business since 1792, recently released its spring weather forecast. The outlook? "Warmer-than-normal temperatures for most of the country, with a few exceptions: southern and central California, Desert Southwest, southern Florida, and western Ohio Valley, where it will be near to below normal."

MALLOY: Trump signs executive order written by Idaho Sen. Risch to end controversial Lava Ridge Wind Project near historic Japanese internment site.

Drexel at Northeastern, 3 p.m. Cornell at Dartmouth, 6 p.m. Princeton at Yale, 6 p.m. Delaware at Towson, 6:30 p.m. Columbia at Harvard, 7 p.m.

The country is looking for answers after an Army helicopter crashed midair with a passenger jet carrying 64 people, leaving no survivors.