One year ago, the talk about North Dakota's massive Lake Sakakawea reservoir centered on low water levels, poor access and a threatened fishery. The lake's elevation at that time was about 1,822 ...

The "big three" are Fort Peck in Montana, Lake Sakakawea and Lake Oahe which spans both North and South Dakota. Smaller impoundments downstream, in order, are Big Bend, Fort Randall and Gavins ...

Lake Sakakakwea is at a crossroads. So says Friends of Lake Sakakawea, a grassroots lake advocacy group that organized nearly 15 years ago. Between oil exploration, federal budget cutbacks to the ...

MINOT, ND (KXNET) — City of Minot water officials are keeping up with the demand as Lake Sakakawea is set to be the Magic City’s main water source starting next year. Lake Sakakawea, ...

Since the ‘50s, the Army Corps of Engineers has permitted 32 pipelines on federal land around Lake Sakakawea, nine of which cross the lake. The agency is reviewing eight more that have come to ...

RIVERDALE, ND (KXNET) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District is closing a road that leads to Lake Sakakawea. On March 17, the road that goes to the Government Bay Boat Ramp at the ...

RIVERDALE, N.D. (AP) -- A new forecast for Lake Sakakawea says the big lake will drop 6 feet over the next few months, to a record year-end low of 1808.6 feet. The Dec. 31 projection is 1½ feet ...

BISMARCK – Crude oil will soon have another route under Lake Sakakawea after the North Dakota Public Service Commission voted unanimously Monday to grant a permit for a nearly $105 million pipeline.

As of Tuesday, ice still covered a large part of Lake Sakakawea but this year likely won’t be a record-breaker. The latest recorded date for the reservoir going ice-free is May 17, 1979.

Some of the wastewater was cleaned up at the site but some of it reached a creek that is a tributary to Lake Sakakawea, about 5 miles downstream. The wastewater contained no chemicals used in ...