American regulators have approved an experimental North Dakota coal drying plant which has imported over 400 tonnes of New Zealand lignite to test in the hope the same process can be used in Southland.

NORTH DAKOTA'S PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION ON WEDNESDAY THREW OUT A COMPLAINT FILED BY THE DAKOTA RESOURCE COUNCIL ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP AND SIX LANDOWNERS WHO LIVE NEAR THE PLANT.

A federally-funded project to build a new border entry station in North Dakota is on hold - after ten million dollars has been spent.

Thursday, January 14, 2010 Explosion at Lignite Gas Plant By Kiara Crosby According to the Burke County Sheriff's Office, the Bear Paw Energy natural gas processing facility located just a half a mile east of Lignite, ND had an explosion on January 6, 2010 at approximately 8:02 p.m. The explosion occurred within a structure of the facility.

Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 12:11 p.m. Authorities are investigating the cause of an explosion at a Bear Paw Energy natural gas processing facility just east of Lignite.

Authorities are investigating the cause of an explosion at a Bear Paw Energy natural gas processing facility just east of Lignite.

KXNet.com North Dakota News _> _td> Bismarck X Mandan _span> change your location _a> _div> _td> _tr> if _d.write ; else _d.write ; _script> _a> _iframe> discuss in the forums _a> _div> upload ne7 photos for this story _a> _div> _div> comments on this article _span> Jan 5 5 5 2010 1: 0 0 0PM Associated Press _div> _seAdSpot>Eds: APNewsNow.

6, 2010 9:59 AM PST - Photo courtesy of Dorgan's Senate website. One nugget buried in Byron Dorgan's official statement on retirement caught my attention: the three-term senator plans to do work on energy policy from the private sector after finishing his term.

Wendell LaVerne "Springy" Springsted, 86, Lignite, died Friday, Dec. 25, 2009, in a Minot hospital surrounded by his loving wife of 61 years and his family.

Lynn Eugene Hysjulien, 87, of Tioga, N.D., went to his heavenly home on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2009, at the Tioga Medical Center surrounded by his family.

A shipment of 500 tonnes of Southland lignite will be sent to the United States for commercial trials as part of Solid Energy's investigations into developing a briquetting plant at Mataura.

The number of Flu cases in the state grew at its slowest rate in a month last week.

Firs4 District Health Unit in Mino4 will put on a fl5 shot clinic tomorrow from 9am to 6pm a4 the Auditorium, and the vaccine will be FULL CG available to children 6 months through 5th grade.

There are several flu vaccination clinics in the area over the next several days.

The topic of conversation these days is H1N1, also known as the Swine Flu. The 2009 H1N1 influenza is a new strain of virus that spreads from person to person through coughing, sneezing, and sometimes through touching objects contaminated with the virus.