North Dakota legislators won’t be scrambling to fund political subdivisions with Tuesday’s election defeat of a ballot measure proposing to eliminate property taxes in the state. However, dozens of bills are expected to be introduced related to property tax relief when the Legislature ...

Measure 5, an initiative to legalize recreational cannabis in North Dakota, was defeated in Tuesday night’s election. Support for recreational cannabis has been growing with each attempt to pass legislation, and one of its more vocal advocates, Steve Bakken, Burleigh County commissioner ...

Jim Rostad, Ron Merritt and Miranda Schuler won the three open seats on the Ward County Commission Tuesday night. In unofficial vote totals, Rostad led with 13,926 votes, followed by Merritt with 13,096 votes. Schuler was third with 11,878, with Shelly Weppler close behind with 11,694 votes. ...

State Rep. Paul Thomas, R-Velva, won a seat in the North Dakota Senate Tuesday with a 7,312 to 1,525 victory over independent candidate Robert Tolar of Bottineau, according to the unofficial tally in District 6. Running unopposed for the state House of Representatives were Rep. Dick Anderson ...

The District 38 race was won by Republicans. Christina Wolff and Dan Ruby beat out Lisa Hermosillo, the Democratic candidate, in District 38’s 2024 election. Wolff is a newcomer to politics for the Republican Party and said that her campaign had been much more involved than she thought. ...

North Central District judges Richard Hagar and Stacy Louser were reelected to six-year terms in North Central District Court Tuesday. Both ran unopposed. Unofficial vote totals were 27,575 for Hagar and 27,631 for Louser. Hagar was first elected in 2006 to the North Central Judicial District ...