BISMARCK (AP) — A group backed by Elon Musk is running ads targeting conservative Republican legislators in several states over their support of a federal drug pricing program. No one seems as surprised about the effort as the lawmakers themselves. The video ad by Building America's Future ...
BISMARCK (AP) — When Fargo voters approved a unique local election system in 2018, their goal was to choose candidates with broader support to lead North Dakota’s largest city. It worked — maybe too well. Now the state Legislature is moving to ban the system, with the lawmaker pushing ...
By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — When Fargo voters approved a unique local election system in 2018, their goal was to choose candidates with broader support to lead North Dakota's largest city. It worked — maybe too well. Now the state Legislature is moving to ban ...
MANDAN (AP) — An attorney for a Texas pipeline company said Wednesday at trial that he will prove various Greenpeace entities coordinated delays and disruptions of a controversial oil pipeline's construction in North Dakota, and defamed the company to its lenders. Attorneys for the ...
BISMARCK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota is recovering at his Bismarck home after injuring his head over the weekend when he slipped on ice. Cramer, 64, said on social media that he was walking behind his home on Sunday when he stepped on the ice, then fell and hit the back of ...
MANDAN (AP) — A Texas pipeline company’s lawsuit accusing Greenpeace of defamation, disruptions and attacks during protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline goes to trial in North Dakota on Monday, in a case the environmental advocacy organization says threatens free speech rights and its ...
BELCOURT (AP) — Native American activist Leonard Peltier was defiant toward the government but grateful for his supporters as they welcomed him home to North Dakota on Wednesday, a day after his release from a Florida prison where he had been serving a life sentence in the 1975 killings of ...
SUMTERVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his life sentence to home confinement in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. Peltier, 80, left ...
By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota man was arrested after authorities say he impersonated an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer and walked an inmate out of a county jail. The local sheriff said the episode on Tuesday resulted from complacency and ...
BISMARCK (AP) — Two North Dakota nonprofits have settled their lawsuit against a white nationalist hate group that alleged it intimidated immigrant business owners, though the details are unclear. A court docket entry last week gave notice of the settlement following a conference in Fargo, ...
BISMARCK (AP) — It's been three years since a Chinese company's plan to develop a swath of farmland near a North Dakota Air Force base prompted local security concerns and led to a rush of legislation across the country, but calls for restrictions keep coming. If anything, the demand by ...
By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota's decades-long efforts to aid farmers by reshaping the weather through "cloud seeding" is facing fierce opposition in the state Capitol, where legislation could outlaw the practice, which is used across the West and has ...
BISMARCK (AP) — When North Dakota's petroleum association was going to hold a banquet honoring top fracking executives last year, it turned to Gov. Doug Burgum. The two-term Republican, now President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Interior Department, co-hosted the event — at the ...
(AP) — The Senate confirmed Doug Burgum as interior secretary late Thursday after President Donald Trump tapped the North Dakota billionaire to spearhead the Republican administration's ambitions to boost fossil fuel production. The vote was 79-18. More than half of Senate Democrats joined ...
BISMARCK (AP) — A trial in a lawsuit seeking to strike down North Dakota's ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors began Monday, more than a year after families of transgender children and a doctor filed the suit that argued the law violates the state's constitution. North Dakota is ...
By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A lawsuit seeking to strike down North Dakota's ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors will go to trial Monday, more than a year after families of transgender children and a doctor filed the suit that argued the law violates ...
BISMARCK (AP) — North Dakota’s abortion ban will not be enforced while the state appeals an earlier decision that found it unconstitutional, the state’s highest court ruled Friday. That appeal has yet to fully play out in the state Supreme Court after a judge struck down the law in ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just moments before leaving office, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. Peltier was denied parole as recently as July and wasn't eligible for parole again until ...
(AP) — President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for interior secretary told a Senate panel Thursday the U.S. can leverage development of fossil fuels and other energy sources to promote world peace and voiced concerns about the reliability of renewable power sources promoted under the Biden ...
BISMARCK (AP) — North Dakota could become the first state to eventually end property taxes on people's homes under a proposal from the state's new governor that combines conservative fiscal policy with the state's enormous oil wealth. The plan by Republican Gov. Kelly Armstrong would start ...