The North Dakota Department of Human Services is hosting a public webinar on the statewide Dementia Care Services Program.
Former broadcaster Cory Hepola, who’s running for governor with the upstart Forward Party of Minnesota, has named school administrator Tamara Uselman as his running mate. Uselman, who lives in Pelican Rapids, is director of equity and inclusion for Fargo Public Schools in North Dakota. She's…
North Dakota regulators want to change the definition of a bar to make clear where electronic pull tab machines will be allowed. Regulators have identified a handful of gas stations and convenience stores that have begun selling and serving booze so that they can put the wildly popular Las V…
A television report shows South Dakota Senate Republicans in a private 2020 meeting planned an already-negotiated outcome to a committee investigating a pair of lawmakers for being intoxicated during legislative proceedings even before the committee had a chance to meet. A transcript of the …
Gov. Doug Burgum appears to be gearing up for another election season of big spending, according to recent campaign finance disclosures.
Major energy producing states from Alaska to Pennsylvania are reaping a windfall from soaring oil and natural gas prices, stoked by the war in Ukraine and the U.S.-led ban on Russian oil imports. The boost threatens to increase state and local governments' entrenched reliance on fossil fuels…
North Dakota officials have given an initial thumbs up to loan requests for two carbon capture projects, and they suggest regulators consider four other energy projects seeking state funding.
The Stark County Commission violated North Dakota open meetings law when the board didn't detail its legal authority for closing a meeting to the public.
A North Dakota state senator who is resigning following a report about text messages he exchanged with an inmate ran up travel expenses the past decade that are more than 14 times what lawmakers bill state taxpayers on average. Travel records reviewed by The Associated Press show Republican …
North Dakota State Board of Higher Education Vice Chair Jill Louters resigned Friday.
Staff of U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., will hold mobile office hours later this month in Fort Yates and Linton.
Gov. Doug Burgum has named the Bismarck Century High School Wind Ensemble and the Jamestown High School Choir as his official state band and state chorus for 2022-23.
A federal appeals court has ordered that a case between Planned Parenthood and the state of South Dakota be put on hold until the U.S. Supreme Court issues a decision in a separate case that could overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide. The South Dakota law…
A federal attorney says President Joe Biden legally called for suspending new and gas lease sales while considering their effect on climate change, and onshore and offshore sales were legally postponed. Andrew Bernie told a federal appeals court panel Tuesday that the current offshore leasin…
Gov. Doug Burgum has relaxed driving restrictions for commercial truckers transporting agricultural products such as fertilizer, to help North Dakota farmers dealing with delayed spring planting.
The director of the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation has announced he'll run for attorney general. That suggests embattled incumbent Republican Jason Ravnsborg won't seek a second term as he faces an impeachment trial in the death of a pedestrian. David Natvig's announcement T…
Jonathan Holth begins June 6 as managing director of the donation-funded Office of Recovery Reinvented.
Grand Forks police and federal agents seized video discs and other items from the home of North Dakota’s longest-serving state senator after he had traded scores of text messages with a man jailed on child pornography charges. According to a police report, a Grand Forks police detective and …
Candidates for two high-profile statewide offices outlined their views in an early candidate forum.
North Dakota's Health Department is investigating a case of hepatitis of unknown origin in a Grand Forks County child.
More than half of abortions in America are now done with pills, rather than surgery. The battle over access to medication abortions will only grow in importance if the Supreme Court follows through with its leaked draft opinion that would overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision and allow …
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum says state agencies may use their present budgets as a starting point for drafting new two-year spending plans. And although agency heads should consider inefficiencies, they won’t have to identify potential cuts. The Republican governor’s guidelines come as sta…
North Dakota lawmakers sought to tighten or change election procedures last year through dozens of bills, but the few that passed won't result in many visible changes for voters in June.
A subsidiary of North Dakota’s only Fortune 500 company says it won’t pursue plans to build a natural gas pipeline from western North Dakota’s oil patch to the eastern part of the state. WBI Energy is a unit of Bismarck-based MDU Resources Group. The company says the project is not viable du…
Households in northwestern North Dakota who dealt with extended power outages in the wake of a devastating late-April blizzard can now apply for state aid.