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North Dakota News

Governor charts his path to Interior with a rosy state oil, gas outlook

BISMARCK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has given his choice for Interior secretary a mandate to "Drill baby drill," and on Wednesday his pick, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, offered a rosy budget picture to lawmakers based largely on his state's success in extracting near-record levels ...

Interim superintendent of ND Highway Patrol appointed

BISMARCK – Gov. Doug Burgum and Gov.-elect Kelly Armstrong have appointed Lt. Daniel Haugen to serve as interim superintendent of the North Dakota Highway Patrol, according to news releases. Col. Brandon Solberg is retiring from law enforcement after nearly six and a half years as Highway ...

National monument proposed for North Dakota Badlands, with tribes’ support

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A coalition of conservation groups and Native American tribal citizens on Friday called on President Joe Biden to designate nearly 140,000 acres of rugged, scenic Badlands as North Dakota's first national monument, a proposal several tribal nations say would preserve the ...

EPA to charge ‘methane fee’ for emissions waste

WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil and natural gas companies for the first time will have to pay a federal fee if they emit dangerous methane above certain levels under a final rule announced Tuesday by the Biden administration. The Environmental Protection Agency rule follows through on a directive from ...

Kevin Cramer wins 2nd term in US Senate

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota won a second term on Tuesday, turning back a challenge from a Democrat making her second attempt to gain a Senate seat. The veteran Republican politician beat Democrat Katrina Christiansen, an assistant professor of engineering at ...

ND voters defeat ballot measure to largely axe property tax

BISMARCK (AP) — North Dakota voters on Tuesday rejected a ballot measure to outlaw most local property taxes, which critics said would have led to dramatic cuts in state services. The general election ballot also included four other proposals, including one calling for the legalization of ...

Lone congressman, Republican Armstrong, to be next governor

BISMARCK (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Kelly Armstrong won election as North Dakota's next governor on Tuesday, continuing the GOP's three-decade grip on the highest job in the conservative state. The state's lone U.S. congressman beat Democratic state Sen. Merrill Piepkorn and independent ...

Republican Kevin Cramer wins 2nd term in US Senate representing North Dakota

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota won a second term on Tuesday, turning back a challenge from a Democrat making her second attempt to gain a Senate seat. The veteran Republican politician beat Democrat Katrina Christiansen, an ...

North Dakota woman to serve 25 years in prison for fatally poisoning boyfriend

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota woman will serve 25 years in prison for the poisoning death of her boyfriend, who authorities say believed he was about to come into a large inheritance and had planned to break up with her. Ina Thea Kenoyer was charged with murder in October 2023 for the ...

ND’s abortion ban will remain on hold during court appeal

BISMARCK (AP) — North Dakota won’t be allowed to enforce its near total abortion ban while the state appeals a judge’s ruling that struck down the law. The latest decision by District Judge Bruce Romanick means that, for now, his September ruling stands while the state appeals it to the ...

Hand-counting measure effort fizzles in North Dakota

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A proposed ballot measure in North Dakota that sought to require hand-counting of every election ballot, among other proposals, won't advance. Initiative leader Lydia Gessele said Thursday the group won't be submitting signatures by a ...

Senator’s son to change plea in 2023 crash that killed ND deputy

BISMARCK (AP) — The adult son of U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer is expected to change his plea on Friday in connection with a pursuit and crash that killed a North Dakota sheriff’s deputy last year. Ian Cramer, 43, was scheduled to go to trial next week beginning Tuesday for charges of homicide ...

Judge strikes down ND’s abortion ban, rules that access is protected

BISMARCK (AP) — A state judge struck down North Dakota's abortion ban Thursday, declaring that broad guarantees of personal liberty in the constitution of his conservative, Republican-dominated state create a fundamental right to abortion before a fetus is viable. The state's GOP attorney ...