Blake Nicholson, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Flooding on Cloud’s Lakota Solar Enterprises property on the Pine Ridge Reservation in southern South Dakota.

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Pine Ridge reservation braces for more flooding

by Blake Nicholson Associated PressApril 9, 2019

BISMARCK, N.D. — The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, one of the poorest areas in the nation, is bracing for another major winter storm and the prospect of renewed flooding that is also forecast to hit a wide swath of the Plains and…

Cars are parked outside RJR Maintenance and Management in Mandan, N.D., on Monday, April 1, 2019. Police in North Dakota say "several" bodies have been found inside the business in suburban Bismarck. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)

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Four dead in ‘multiple homicide’ at North Dakota business

by Blake Nicholson Associated PressApril 1, 2019

The sun rises behind icicles formed on the harbor in Port Washington, Wis., on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019. A deadly arctic deep freeze enveloped the Midwest with record-breaking temperatures. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

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Flights canceled, offices close amid frigid Midwest weather

by Blake Nicholson Associated PressJanuary 30, 2019

Moorhead, MN area elementary school electronic sign shows to temperature Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. Daytime temperatures in the Fargo-Moorhead area were near -20F as frigid weather grips the area. (AP Photo/Bruce Crummy)

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Midwest cities try to keep homeless from record cold

by Blake Nicholson Associated PressJanuary 29, 2019

Boston Celtics basketball star Kyrie Irving accepts gifts from students on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota on Thursday, Aug 23, 2018. Irving traveled to the reservation from which his mother came to be honored by the tribe for his heritage and his support of its battle against the Dakota Access oil pipeline. (AP Photo/Blake Nicholson)

Celtics’ Kyrie Irving honored by mother’s Sioux tribe

by Blake Nicholson Associated PressAugust 24, 2018

In this July 18, 2018 photo, soybean farmer Michael Petefish poses in his soybean field at his farm near Claremont in southern Minnesota. American farmers have put the brakes on unnecessary spending as the U.S.-China trade war escalates, hoping the two countries work out their differences before the full impact of China's retaliatory tariffs hits American soybean and pork producers. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Farmers fret, wait as trade war escalates

by Steve Karnowski Associated Press, and Blake Nicholson Associated PressJuly 19, 2018

Protesters against the Dakota Access oil pipeline congregate Monday, Nov. 21, 2016, near Cannon Ball, N.D., on a long-closed bridge on a state highway near their camp in southern North Dakota.

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Judge allows Dakota Access pipeline to keep running

by Blake Nicholson Associated PressOctober 11, 2017

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2016 file photo, Dakota Access Pipeline protesters sit in a prayer circle at the Front Line Camp as a line of law enforcement officers make their way across the camp to remove the protesters and relocate to the overflow camp a few miles to the south on Highway 1806 in Morton County, N.D. Members of more than 200 tribes from across North America have come to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's encampment at the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers since August, the tribe says. Estimates at the protest site have varied from a few hundred to several thousand depending on the day _ enough for tribal officials to call it one of the largest gatherings of Native Americans in a century or more. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File)

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Activists in 4-state pipeline protest plan ‘necessity’ defense

by Blake Nicholson Associated PressOctober 1, 2017

In this Oct. 5, 2016, photo, Dave Archambault, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, stands outside a federal appeals court in Washington where judges heard his tribe's challenge to the Dakota Access pipeline. Archambault, the American Indian leader who spearheaded opposition to the four-state Dakota Access pipeline has been ousted as Standing Rock Sioux chairman. Archambault conceded defeat in a statement Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017. AP Photo/Jessica Gresko

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Tribal head who led Dakota Access pipeline fight loses election

by Blake Nicholson Associated PressSeptember 28, 2017

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein prepares to spray-paint “I approve this message” in red paint on the blade of a bulldozer at a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline in the area of Morton County, N.D., Sept. 6, 2016.

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Judge approves Jill Stein’s plea deal for pipeline protest

by Blake Nicholson Associated PressAugust 9, 2017