DALLAS, Texas, March 1 -- Hunton Andrews Kurth, a law firm, issued the following news: Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP advised the underwriters on an SEC-registered offering by Northern States Power Company (a Minnesota corporation) (the "Company") of $700 million principal amount of its 5.40% First Mortgage Bonds, Series due March 15, 2054 (the "Bonds"). The Company was incorporated in 2000, under the laws of the State of Minnesota. The Company is an operating utility engaged primarily in the genera  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, Feb. 27 -- Gov. Doug Burgum, R-North Dakota, issued the following news on Feb. 26, 2024: Gov. Doug Burgum testified today in the trial over North Dakota's claim that the federal government owes the state $38 million in damages incurred in the state's emergency response to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protests. The state's lawsuit contends that the U.S. government allowed thousands of protesters to engage in an unpermitted and illegal occupation of federal land mana  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, March 1 -- Gov. Doug Burgum, R-North Dakota, issued the following news on Feb. 29, 2024: Gov. Doug Burgum tonight convened a meeting with Col. Robert J. Newbauer, commander and district engineer of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Omaha District, stressing the need to keep restricting flows from Garrison Dam until the threat of ice jam flooding has diminished in Bismarck-Mandan and other areas downstream. A major ice jam near Fox Island and the Heart River confluence s  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, March 1 -- Gov. Doug Burgum, R-North Dakota, issued the following news on Feb. 29, 2024: * * * Garrison Dam to Reduce Flows; Burgum Issues Emergency Declaration * * * Gov. Doug Burgum today received a commitment from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to reduce flows from Garrison Dam upstream of an ice jam causing minor flooding on the Missouri River in Bismarck-Mandan, as state agencies coordinated with local and federal partners on a whole-of-government response. Sh  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 27 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the State of Montana in Held v. Montana. The brief, led by the State of North Dakota, supports Montana's position in an appeal over judicial overreach from a question of environmental policy set by the state legislature. The case involves a challenge to a Montana law that bans state entities from "considering the impacts o  more