This week marks the official kickoff of a long-brewing, high-stakes trial that could change the American environmental movement forever—and crush Americans’ First Amendment rights. In a North Dakota ...

WASHINGTON — Calling allegations made by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe "confusing and contradictory" and saying their lawsuit was "prematurely filed," the chief judge of U.S. District Court in ...

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also is considering two other excessive force lawsuits filed against law enforcement in the wake of the DAPL protests in 2016-17. A fourth lawsuit is still making ...

Late Tuesday afternoon, attorneys representing the Standing Rock Sioux tribe filed a lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers over the recently re-started construction of the controversial Dakota ...

The federal judge overseeing a tribal lawsuit against the Dakota Access Pipeline is allowing nine groups including the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Congress of American Indians to ...

GRAND FORKS — The Dakota Access Pipeline’s history in North Dakota is marked with controversy, but its contribution to the state coffers has been substantial — perhaps even more than most people ...

Amnesty International warned against a “chilling verdict” returned by a North Dakota jury on Thursday in a lawsuit against Greenpeace. The verdict orders Greenpeace, an environmental advocacy ...

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