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North Dakota News

New tribal national park in ND aims to preserve rugged, scenic landscape

BISMARCK (AP) — A new tribal national park in North Dakota's rugged Badlands is opening a little-seen area of the dramatic landscape to hikers and other outdoors enthusiasts, part of a Native American tribe's efforts to preserve the land and encourage recreation. The Mandan, Hidatsa and ...

ND enacts nation’s first law shielding Bayer from some cancer lawsuits

(AP) — A new first-of-its-kind law enacted in North Dakota could shield agrochemical manufacturer Bayer from lawsuits claiming it failed to warn customers that its popular weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer. Though the immediate effect may be small, given that North Dakota is among the ...

Judge rules federal government owes $28 million to ND for pipeline protests

BISMARCK (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday found the state of North Dakota entitled to nearly $28 million for responding to protests of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in 2016 and 2017 — a win for the state in its multiyear effort to recoup the costs from the federal government. The state ...

Gov. Armstrong vetoes library restrictions, school voucher program

BISMARCK (AP) — North Dakota's Republican governor on Wednesday vetoed bills to further restrict sexual content in libraries and to create a private school voucher program, rejecting two measures that have seen widespread support by GOP governors in other states. The GOP-led Legislature can ...

Governor signs bill banning Fargo’s voting system

BISMARCK (AP) — North Dakota's governor signed a bill Wednesday to prohibit the unusual voting system used by his state's largest city. The bill signed by Republican Gov. Kelly Armstrong bans ranked-choice and approval voting. Ranked-choice voting, in which voters rank their preferred ...

Pipeline company filed hundreds of lawsuits against landowners

MANSFIELD, S.D. (AP) — Jared Bossly was planting soybeans one spring night in 2023 on his 2,000-acre farm in South Dakota when he spotted a sheriff's vehicle parked at the corner of his property. He had a hunch it wasn't a social visit. "I'm like, 'Well, I doubt he's just being a friendly ...

Cleanup underway of Keystone oil pipeline spill in southeastern ND

BISMARCK (AP) — Trucks and workers started cleaning up the Keystone oil pipeline spill in rural North Dakota, though its cause and the project timing is unclear. The pipeline ruptured Tuesday morning in southeastern North Dakota and was shut down within two minutes by an employee who heard a ...

The latest leak in the Keystone oil pipeline continues its troubled history

(AP) — The latest leak in the Keystone oil pipeline in North Dakota on Tuesday continues the troubled history of the 15-year-old pipeline. The 2,700-mile-long pipeline originates in Alberta, Canada, and carries heavy tar sands crude oil south across the Dakotas and Nebraska before splitting ...

Keystone oil pipeline shutdown could quickly lead to higher gasoline prices

BISMARCK (AP) — The nearly 2,700-mile Keystone oil pipeline was shut down Tuesday morning after it ruptured in North Dakota, halting the flow of millions of gallons of crude oil from Canada to refineries in the U.S. and potentially leading to higher gasoline prices. South Bow, a liquid ...

Why is Musk-backed PAC running ad against GOP legislators?

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 ...

Trial begins in $300M lawsuit against Greenpeace over ND pipeline protests

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 ...

Cramer recovering from head injuries after slipping on ice

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 ...

Greenpeace says lawsuit threatens organization’s future

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 ...

Native American activist Peltier is welcomed on ND reservation

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 ...

Peltier leaves prison after sentence was commuted

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 ...