World & Nation
Sept. 9, 2016
Winter weather at the Dakota Access pipeline protests in North Dakota.
Dec. 2, 2016
The Standing Rock Sioux tribe is protesting (and suing) to block the Dakota Access pipeline, a $3.8 billion, 1,172-mile project would carry nearly a half-million barrels of crude oil daily from North Dakota’s oil fields through South Dakota and Iowa to an existing pipeline in Patoka, Illinois, where shippers can access Midwest and Gulf Coast markets.
More than 400 demonstrators clashed with police on a bridge north of a protest encampment near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota on Sunday night.
Nov. 20, 2016
Construction on the four-state Dakota Access pipeline resumed Tuesday on private land in North Dakota that’s near a camp where thousands of protesters supporting tribal rights have gathered for months.
Oct. 11, 2016
California
Thousands of people converged on downtown Los Angeles on Sunday to protest the proposed $3.8-billion Dakota Access pipeline, which activists across the country say threatens the water supply and sacred sites of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota.
Feb. 5, 2017
Protesters try to stop the construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
Oct. 28, 2016
For months, protesters have stood in the path of an oil pipeline that is under construction near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, which straddles North and South Dakota.
Nov. 1, 2016
Entertainment & Arts
Oct. 10, 2016
A federal grand jury in North Dakota is looking into a violent November clash between Dakota Access pipeline opponents and officers in which a woman was seriously injured.
Jan. 4, 2017