The U.S. Air Force is telling North Dakota leaders it believes a Chinese company’s plan to build a wet corn milling plant near the Grand Forks Air Force Base poses a national security threat. The Fufeng Group’s proposed $700 million project had been touted as an economic boon. Now opponents say the location 12 miles from the Air Force base creates the potential for espionage. The military isn't specifying what kind of security threat it's worried about, but Grand Forks Mayor Brandon Bochenski says he'll ask the City Council to deny building permits for the project and to refuse to connect it to public infrastructure. Fufeng officials are declining to comment.
A Mandan man was sentenced to 60 days in jail after pleading guilty to shooting another man during a game that included loaded weapons.
The South Dakota Senate has censured and reinstated a Republican senator who was suspended last week. Republican Sen. Julie Frye-Mueller was accused of harassing a legislative aide during an exchange about childhood vaccinations and breastfeeding. The Republican-controlled Senate overwhelmingly approved a report from an investigative committee that concluded Frye-Mueller had harassed a staff member of the Legislative Research Council. The aide filed a complaint last week detailing how Frye-Mueller told the aide her child could die from vaccinations and graphically discussed breastfeeding while her husband was in the room. Frye-Mueller and her husband have denied much of the aide’s complaint. But Senate lawmakers made it clear they believed the aide.
Four public hearings have been set for a pipeline that would transport carbon dioxide emissions from Midwestern ethanol plants to North Dakota…
Public defense across the West suffers deep-rooted, decades-old problems. States have two solutions to consider: dole out more cash or shrink the criminal justice system.
Cities and counties around North Dakota are on the verge of catching a break after a tough start to the winter snow season.
Gov. Doug Burgum on Wednesday named a new information technology chief for North Dakota's state government.
Two University of Mary senior nursing students from Bismarck used some of their newly learned skills to help a 70-year-old woman who lost cons…
Judges or elected officials in many counties nationwide have full oversight over public defense, a structure that can pressure public defenders to avoid making motions that may agitate a judge.
Republican state Rep. Bethany Soye’s bill that would restrict healthcare to transgender individuals below the age of 18 passed through a House committee on health and human services Tuesday morning with a dominant vote, joining at least 18 other states with similar legislation. Soye raised this bill as a matter of consent. Testimonies in support for the bill argued transgender surgeries were regrettable decisions made as teens or early adults, harmful medical experiments or unethical cures to gender dysphoria that should be left to “normal.” Opponents criticized the bill on the grounds of civil rights infringements and overreach into personal healthcare decisions.
A pipeline spilled 13,860 gallons of produced water Monday afternoon in Bowman County, impacting range land.
The North Dakota House unanimously approved legislation on Tuesday that would require schools and governing bodies to give students and board …
North Dakota's state ethics panel might not get everything it sought in a bill for tweaks to state government ethics laws.
The state’s judges and Supreme Court justices are asking the state Legislature for salary increases they say are overdue.
Proposed revisions to North Dakota's abortion laws cleared the state Senate on Tuesday.
Medical marijuana patients aren't any closer to having edible products legally available after the North Dakota House of Representatives kille…
A judge has dismissed the charge filed against a man accused of pointing a knife at a Bismarck convenience store employee.
Minot police have a suspect in custody in a shooting death that they're treating as a homicide.
“It’s a system that encourages unethical behavior," said one public defense attorney. "...It’s most certainly not justice. No one feels like it’s justice.”
Rural bankers in Midwest and Plains states expect strong farm economic conditions to continue, though fuel and fertilizer costs remain a conce…
Boardings at North Dakota's eight commercial service airports in 2022 surpassed more than 1 million for the first time in three years.
A pair of bills introduced in the North Dakota Legislature hoping to provide universal free lunches and to end lunch debt shaming for students…
South Dakota Republican lawmakers have advanced a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow the state to require people on Medicaid to work. The state recently expanded eligibility for the health plan. The proposal would amend the South Dakota constitution, meaning it requires voter approval. On Monday, all 11 Republicans on the House State Affairs Committee voted to advance the proposal to the full House. The two Democrats on the committee opposed it.
A 48-year-old North Dakota woman is charged with murder after a 5-month-old boy died at an unlicensed daycare she ran. The Foster County State Attorney's office announced Monday that Patricia Wick was arrested and charged with murder, child abuse involving another child and operating a daycare without a license. Carrington emergency responders found the baby unresponsive at the daycare at Wick's home on Sept. 26. He died at a hospital of his injuries. During the investigation, officials learned a 6-year-old child had broken his arm earlier in September at Wick's daycare. Wick represented herself when she made her first court appearance Monday.
A bill to give law enforcement the ability to reach and prosecute dealers who provide drugs that cause a death met with almost no opposition during Monday testimony.