Basin Electric member assists in making of DiCaprio movie

Loren Yellow Bird never imagined he’d be sipping coffee and speaking the Arikara language with Leonardo DiCaprio. But that’s exactly what the White …

North Dakota rodeo reaches six decades with co-op support

The Home on the Range Champions Ride Match Rodeo is in its 60th year. Goldenwest Electric Cooperative, a Class C member of Basin Electric …

Member co-op’s community focus keeps members cool

Every other July, Goldenwest Electric Cooperative, a Basin Electric Class C member headquartered in Wibaux, MT, holds its annual meeting at St. Mary’s …

Youth Tour 2016: A moment at the Changing of the Guard

Katie Ryan-Anderson is the manager of member communications for Dakota Valley and Northern Plains Electric Cooperatives in North Dakota. As a …

How electric cooperatives are helping the healers

Two scenarios. Choose one: Your doctor decides getting an MRI is necessary. The hospital doesn’t have an MRI machine on site. They do have a …

Top 11 stories of 2015 at Basin Electric: Live Wire

On Dec. 30, you saw the top 9 Basin Electric videos of 2015. Here are the top 11 viewed blog posts as tabulated by WordPress, our blogging …

Beautiful Christmas, even in a bucket truck

You might see a Touchstone Energy® Cooperatives commercial running on your social media channels, be it Twitter or Facebook, or you might even see it …

A day in the life of Director Roberta Rohrer

Little did she know, but Roberta Rohrer was running a 1979 co-op board election campaign from a pickup truck on the edge of the Great …

Little girl with a role model at Basin Electric

Kim Kranz, Basin Electric program communications coordinator II, meets a lot of children. She runs Basin Electric's Story Behind the Switch, an …

Co-ops team up to convert community eyesore into community centerpiece

The cooperative principle, concern for community, was never more visible in Fairfield, MT, than with a community parking lot project that brought two …