Jack Dura

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  • Marilyn HagertyNorth America

    ‘I wrote that Eatbeat column so fast one day that I never expected it to be repeated’: Marilyn Hagerty, viral Olive Garden reviewer, dies at 99

    By Jack Dura and The Associated Press
  • TorontoEnvironment

    The air in the Upper Midwest is so thick, ‘if you have a nice pork loin you can hang from a tree, it’ll turn into ham’

    By Jack Dura and The Associated Press
  • This image provided by South Bow shows a spill from the Keystone oil pipeline that occurred Tuesday, April 8, 2025 near Fort Ransom, N.D. (South Bow via AP)Finance

    The Keystone Pipeline will ‘carefully’ restart operations after spilling 147,000 gallons of Canadian oil destined for U.S. refineries

    By Jack Dura and The Associated Press
  • This image provided by South Bow shows a spill from the Keystone oil pipeline that occurred Tuesday, April 8, 2025 near Fort Ransom, N.D. (South Bow via AP)Finance

    The Keystone oil pipeline spilled over 147,000 gallons of Canadian oil destined for U.S. refineries

    By Jack Dura and The Associated Press
  • Oil fieldFinance

    The Keystone oil pipeline’s shut down could lead to higher gas prices at the pump—and cause ripple effects for groceries

    By Jack Dura, Sarah Raza, and others
  • An oil pipeline in North DakotaEnvironment

    The $5.2 billion Keystone oil pipeline’s spill shut down is blocking thousands of gallons of Canadian oil from the U.S.

    By Jack Dura, Sarah Raza, and others
  • FILE – Dakota Access pipeline protesters defy law enforcement officers who are trying to force them from a camp on private land in the path of pipeline construction, Oct. 27, 2016, near Cannon Ball, N.D. (AP Photo/James MacPherson, File)Environment

    Greenpeace says pipeline company lawsuit over Dakota Access protests could drive it to extinction

    By Jack Dura and The Associated Press
  • Former Gov. Doug Burgum, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the the Interior Department as Secretary of the Interior, testifies before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)Environment

    Trump’s interior secretary pick Doug Burgum says U.S. needs to make more electricity from coal to win AI arms race

    By Matthew Brown, Jennifer McDermott, and others
  • Dan McLean, shown Wednesday, March 6, 2024, points to where Summit Carbon Solutions’ proposed carbon dioxide pipeline would cross his land near Menoken, N.D. The project has drawn opposition from numerous Midwestern landowners, including McLean. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)Environment

    Airlines and agriculture groups dream of ethanol-fueled jets, but moving the corn-based fuel? Farmers say NIMBY to ‘big, poisonous pipe’

    By Jack Dura, Josh Funk, and others
  • A sign reading “No CO2, no eminent domain” stands along a rural road east of Bismarck, N.D., on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. The sign is in opposition to Summit Carbon Solutions’ proposed $5.5 billion, 2,000-mile pipeline network to carry carbon dioxide emissions from dozens of ethanol plants in five states to central North Dakota for permanent storage deep underground. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)Environment

    South Dakota regulators shoot down request for carbon dioxide pipeline that was meant to be part of a $5.5bn, 2,000-mile network through 5 states

    By Jack Dura and The Associated Press
  • Chris and Gary KmanEnvironment

    Horse people are furious over the Park Service proposal that could throw mustangs out of Theodore Roosevelt National Park

    By Jack Dura and The Associated Press
  • Maksym Bunchukov, Andrii Hryshchuk and Ivan Sakivskyi help themselves to perogies at a lunch hosted Monday, July 17, 2023, by the Ukrainian Cultural Institute in Dickinson, North Dakota. The three Ukrainians are among the first recruits of the North Dakota Petroleum Council’s Bakken Global Recruitment of Oilfield Workers program. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)Success

    Ukrainians are moving to North Dakota to fill shale oil field workforce shortage and help families facing war back home

    By Jack Dura and The Associated Press
  • Spy thriller book cover design with man holding pistol gun.Finance

    Fargo says it doesn’t want its residents using their homes ‘as gun stores’ in lawsuit against North Dakota

    By Jack Dura and The Associated Press
  • North Dakota Republican state, from left, Reps. Mark Sanford, Bob Martinson and Mike Nathe attend a meeting of the Legislature’s Budget Section, Thursday, June 29, 2023, at the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D. The three lawmakers sit on a panel that wrote the 2023-25 budget for North Dakota’s higher education system. Sanford also chairs the Legislature’s interim Higher Education Committee, which will be exploring issues of potential impacts from Minnesota’s North Star Promise tuition program. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)Finance

    Minnesota’s new free college tuition program is sparking fear in neighboring North Dakota: ‘This has catastrophic implications’

    By Jack Dura, Steve Karnowski, and others