During the fall and winter of 2016-17, KBMF-LP news team members traveled three times to the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota covering the Dakota Access Pipeline protests on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota. KBMF-LP subsequently aired interviews with members of the Oceti Sakowin tribe, as well as academics, activists and researchers visiting the camp from around the world. Additionally, more than forty newspapers published a syndicated story by a KBMF-LP news team member that detailed actions by armed forces at Backwater Bridge on the night of November 20, 2016.