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Grace Fiori

Public Service Commission incumbent prioritizes utility reliability, efficiency

With early voting underway, Randy Christmann faces Tracey Wilkie on ballot for top regulator

Tribes reach for sun, start from ground up

Solar nudges North Dakota’s dominant wind sector in renewable energy

North Dakota could elect first Indigenous utilities commissioner: Balloting begins

Turtle Mountain candidate weighs rate hikes, environmental duties, pipelines

Bush Prize awards $500K to strengthen Native voting rights, disability access

Native women's coalition, youth sports tournament also win recognition for innovation in tribal communities

Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa gift five symbolic white buffalo calves to neighboring tribes

Tribal leaders hope buffalo calves will usher in time of ‘renewal and healing’

Spirit Lake Nation commodity food program turns to tribal buffalo herd for meat

Advocates want lawmakers to extend Farm Bill self-determination pilot project

Three Affiliated Tribes emergency responders combat 11,000-acre Bear Den Fire

‘Neighbors helping neighbors’ to survive blazes raging around Fort Berthold Reservation

Oil industry forecasts modest production from Bakken-Three Forks shale, spotlight on technology to spur development

North Dakota’s annual petroleum gathering welcomes new regulator, not regulations

‘Be that changemaker’: USDA consultation with tribal leaders follows congressional testimony

Long-term solutions will incorporate ‘tribal self-determination wherever possible’

Bush Foundation expands fellowship program with more fellows, larger grants

Changes designed to foster greater impact for regional leaders and communities

Climate Pollution Reduction Grants provide 33 tribal nations with $300 million

EPA’s largest competition funds home heating, public services, solar energy on reservations within Missouri River basin

Summit within a summit focuses on FARMS and food

Sessions and speeches explored the balance between technology and tradition in agriculture

Tatanka Means closes first day of Tribal Leaders Summit on a high note

Crowd loved Means’ witty, sometimes raunchy stand-up set

U.S. Senators push USDA to rectify shortages at tribal food assistance programs

Tribal communities left without staple foods; legislators demand solutions

Fort Berthold Reservation farmers’ market draws a lot of love

‘It’s a hobby, sitting out here and meeting people’

Tribal food assistance program in shambles after USDA warehouse consolidation

North Dakotans call on state to deny permits for carbon capture project

‘We have to live here in harmony’

Sicangu Lakota citizens grow vision for future of food

‘It really humbled me, being able to be in the garden’

Meet Grace Fiori: Buffalo Fire’s new environment and agriculture reporter

Massachusetts native brings sensitivity, passion and on-the-ground experience to the role

Tracy L. Barnett

Regulators order Marathon Oil to pay $64.5M for ‘illegal pollution’ on Fort Berthold Reservation

'This fine just proves what the people of the Fort Berthold Indian reservation have known for a long time'