Blake Nicholson, Author at Greenfield Recorder

A truck travels east on Interstate 80 during a blizzard warning hitting southeast Wyoming and the Colorado Front Range on Wednesday, April 10, 2019, in Cheyenne. People in Colorado and Wyoming were urged to get home early Wednesday and stay there before snow and wind from a powerful spring storm make travel all but impossible.(Jacob Byk/The Wyoming Tribune Eagle via AP)

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‘Bomb cyclone’ snow, wind making travel dangerous in Midwest

by Blake Nicholson Associated PressApril 12, 2019

A storm system known as a “bomb cyclone” slowly churned through the U.S. interior Thursday for the second time in a month, unleashing a blizzard in parts of the Midwest while creating hazardous fire conditions farther south.As much as 18 inches (46…

In this undated March 2019 photo provided by Henry Red Cloud, shows flooding on Cloud's Lakota Solar Enterprises property on the Pine Ridge Reservation in southern South Dakota. Red Cloud estimates flood damage at 250,000. Plains and Midwest states are bracing for another massive winter storm Wednesday and Thursday and the prospect of renewed flooding when the snow melts. (Henry Red Cloud via AP)

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Impoverished Pine Ridge reservation braces for more flooding

by Blake Nicholson Associated PressApril 9, 2019

Mandan, N.D. Police Deputy Chief Lori Flaten, left, and other law enforcement personnel stand outside the scene on the south side the RJR Maintenance and Management property in Mandan, N.D., Monday, April 1, 2019. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)

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Police: ‘Several’ bodies found at North Dakota business

by Blake Nicholson Associated PressApril 1, 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)

Celts’ Irving honored by mother’s Sioux tribe

by Blake Nicholson Associated PressAugust 23, 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)

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Farmers fret and wait as US-China trade war escalates

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

A law enforcement officer climbs a ladder to speak to one of the final holdouts of the Dakota Access Pipeline protest camp sitting atop a wood structure built at the Oceti Sakowin camp in Morton County Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, near Cannon Ball, N.D. After a couple of hours the protester came down on his own and was arrested. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, Pool)

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Dakota pipeline camp cleared of protesters

by James MaCPherson Associated Press, and Blake Nicholson Associated PressFebruary 23, 2017

This June 20, 2012, photo provided by ALM shows U.S. District Judge James "Jeb" Boasberg in Washington, D.C. Boasberg is overseeing a lawsuit filed by the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux, two Dakotas tribes who maintain the 3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline to carry North Dakota oil to Illinois threatens their drinking water and cultural sites. (Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM via AP)

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Judge denies request to halt Dakota Access pipeline work

by Sam Hananel Associated Press, and Blake Nicholson Associated PressFebruary 14, 2017

U.S. District Judge James "Jeb" Boasberg in Washington, in June 2012.

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Dakota pipeline case judge is even-handed

by Blake Nicholson Associated Press, and Dave Kolpack Associated PressFebruary 10, 2017

FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2016, file photo, heavy equipment is seen at a site where sections of the Dakota Access Pipeline were being buried near the town of St. Anthony in Morton County, N.D. The Army has notified Congress Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, that it will allow the 3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline to cross under a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota, completing the four-state project to move North Dakota oil to Illinois. The Army intends to allow the crossing under Lake Oahe as early as Wednesday, Feb. 8. The crossing is the final big chunk of work on the pipeline. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File)

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Oil pipeline foes call for ‘last stand’

by James MaCPherson Associated Press, and Blake Nicholson Associated PressFebruary 8, 2017

Signs are displayed Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017, in the bitter weather at an encampment near Cannon Ball, N.D., to protest the Dakota Access pipeline. Some protesters are vowing to stay in the camp despite a Trump administration order that seeks to expedite the pipeline's completion. (AP Photo/James MacPherson)

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Last pipeline protesters considering fight or flight

by James MaCPherson Associated Press, and Blake Nicholson Associated PressJanuary 25, 2017