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North Dakota Senate chambers. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)

North Dakota Senate defeats plan for legislative sessions every year

By: Jeff Beach (ND Monitor) The North Dakota Legislature will continue to meet every other year after the Senate on Monday defeated a bill to meet annually.  House Bill 1408 called for shorter legislative sessions every year. It was seen by advocates as a way for North Dakota to be more nimble and to make it […]
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April 14, 2025

President of El Salvador refuses to return wrongly deported Maryland man to the US

By: Ashley Murray WASHINGTON — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele won’t return a Maryland man the United States erroneously deported to a mega-prison in his Central American country, he said Monday during a visit to the Oval Office. Sitting beside President Donald Trump, Bukele told reporters, “Of course I’m not going to do it.” Administration […]
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April 14, 2025
Rep. Lori VanWinkle, R-Minot, speaks on the House floor on April 14, 2025. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)

North Dakota lawmaker defends absence as she’s urged to go without pay for vacation

By: Michael Achterling (ND Monitor) North Dakota’s House majority leader urged a state lawmaker Monday to forgo her legislative pay for a week of the session she missed while taking a family vacation. Rep. Lori VanWinkle, R-Minot, returned Monday after missing five days at the Capitol to go with her family on an annual vacation.  […]
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April 14, 2025
Updated tribal textbooks detailing the history and culture of the five Native nations that share land with North Dakota will soon be available at public schools across the state. (Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor)

Tribes, North Dakota partner to update 30-year-old textbooks on Native history

By: Mary Steurer (ND Monitor) Revised textbooks on the five Native American tribes that share land with North Dakota will be ready in time for next school year. For about three decades, the books went without updates due to a lack of funding, said Lucy Fredericks, director of Indian and multicultural education for the North […]
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April 14, 2025
Daily Brief April 14, 2025

Daily Brief: Weekend Wrap Up with Dire Wolves, Wild Fires, and a Legislative Round Up

Hunters Win Big: Legislature Overrides ND Game and Fish Ban Read it here North Dakota hunters scored a major legislative victory this week as lawmakers passed a bill overriding a state Game and Fish Department policy that restricted certain controversial hunting practices, including baiting on private lands. The bill, championed by rural legislators and hunting […]
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April 14, 2025

Trump authorizes US military to begin occupation of federal land along southern border

By: Ariana Figueroa WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump late Friday signed a memorandum directing several agencies to start militarizing a stretch of the southern border, an escalation of the administration’s use of the U.S. military amid its immigration crackdown. The move, which The Washington Post first reported last month, could potentially put U.S. military members […]
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April 12, 2025

Pesticide cancer claims at issue in bill headed for North Dakota Senate vote

By: Jeff Beach(ND Monitor) North Dakota legislators have been wrestling with a pesticide bill backed by agricultural groups that would make it harder for people to win cancer liability lawsuits against the farm chemical industry.  House Bill 1318 would shield the maker of Roundup and other farm chemical manufacturers from lawsuits from people who say they […]
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April 12, 2025
Hunters wore orange shirts to the Capitol on Jan. 17, 2025, in support of a bill to end restrictions on using bait to hunt deer. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)

Hunters score victory with bill that overrules North Dakota Game and Fish policy 

By: Jeff Beach(ND Monitor) North Dakota lawmakers on Friday sided with hunters in the debate over whether the state Game and Fish Department can restrict using bait when deer hunting on private property.  The House passed Senate Bill 2137 after rejecting a proposed amendment. The bill is the same version that passed the Senate. The North Dakota Game […]
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April 12, 2025
Kim Hocking, right, reads in front of the Bismarck Veterans Memorial Library on March 1, 2025, during protests for a bill that would force libraries to remove and relocate obscene content. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)

Committee recommends ‘do not pass’ on controversial North Dakota library content bill

By: Michael Achterling(ND Monitor) The North Dakota House Appropriations Committee voted 22-1 Friday to issue a do-not-pass recommendation on a bill that would require school and public libraries to relocate books deemed “sexually explicit” to areas not easily accessible by minors. The committee also rejected an amendment from the bill’s chief sponsor, Sen. Keith Boehm, […]
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April 11, 2025
Chancellor Mark Hagerott, right, and State Board of Higher Education Chair Tim Mihalick participate in a meeting Jan. 30, 2025, in Bismarck. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)

North Dakota University System chancellor accelerates his retirement to April

North Dakota University System Chancellor Mark Hagerott will retire at the end of April, according to a Friday announcement. Hagerott originally planned to step down as chancellor at the end of 2025, then serve a three-year contract as a professor of artificial intelligence and human security for the University System. He told the State Board […]
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April 11, 2025
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