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North Dakota laws address avoiding criminal charges, improving life after jail

By The Dakotan on April 29, 2025

By: Jeff Beach (ND Monitor) North Dakota officials on Tuesday described new legislation as improving “off-ramps” from the criminal justice system, with one of the off-ramps coming before offenders get into the court system. “We know that people who get into the criminal justice system tend to stay there,” said Tom Erhardt, director for parole […]

Trump orders list of ‘sanctuary cities’ to target for funding freeze

By The Dakotan on April 29, 2025

By: Amy Figueroa WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday evening signed executive orders targeting so-called sanctuary cities by threatening to revoke federal funding and providing legal services and national security assets to law enforcement. The signings fell on the eve of Trump’s first 100 days of his second term, during which his administration has […]

Minot Police Department Finds Texas Fugitive in Hotel

By K.L. Collom on April 29, 2025

Minot-MPD announced Tuesday morning the apprehension of a wanted man from Texas. Delino Deshields Nelson, 32, of Fort Worth, Texas, was arrested Monday afternoon at a hotel in northwest Minot, where officers located him following an unrelated call for service in the area, per the MPD Facebook page. According to the Minot Police Department, officers […]

Canada’s Liberals Retain Power With Minority Gov’t While Conservatives Notch Big Gains In Key Election

By The Dakotan on April 29, 2025

By: Anthony Iafrate Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will remain in office as his Liberal Party won a minority government in Monday’s federal election. Carney took over as Canada’s leader in March when he replaced deeply unpopular former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who had announced his resignation after almost a decade in office. Despite the Liberal victory — […]

Daily Brief: Holmberg Details, House Kills Term Limit Start Date Change, Mandatory Reporting Push, and RFK affect on ND

By The Dakotan on April 29, 2025

Call logs show Holmberg, former AG communicated amid federal sex crime investigation See the full breakdown here Newly released records reveal late North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem had undisclosed communications with former Sen. Ray Holmberg during a criminal investigation into Holmberg’s sexual exploitation of minors — raising troubling questions about transparency and oversight. Meanwhile, […]

North Dakota Dems push for new mandatory reporting laws in response to Holmberg emails

By The Dakotan on April 28, 2025

By: Mary Steurer (ND Monitor) A committee of lawmakers on Monday rejected a last-minute bill to make legislators and higher education officials mandatory reporters of child sexual abuse in light of new documents that show a University of North Dakota official may have known about sex crimes committed by former Sen. Ray Holmberg. Holmberg, who […]

Call logs show Holmberg, former AG communicated amid federal sex crime investigation

By The Dakotan on April 28, 2025

By: Amy Dalrymple (ND Monitor) Newly released call logs show the late Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem communicated with former Sen. Ray Holmberg as the lawmaker was being investigated for sex crimes, including calls the day Stenehjem sat for a law enforcement interview. Yet Stenehjem only told law enforcement about one phone conversation with Holmberg, according […]

House kills term limit start date bill after conference committee stalemate

By The Dakotan on April 28, 2025

By: Michael Achterling (ND Monitor) A bill clarifying the state date for North Dakota’s term limits law failed in the House on a 61-28 vote Monday. The bill was debated over multiple conference committee meetings in recent days. The Senate version contained a Jan. 1, 2023 start date for the term limits, while the House […]

Trump is shifting cybersecurity to the states, but many aren’t prepared

By The Dakotan on April 28, 2025

By: Madyson Fitzgerald For the first half of his career in law enforcement, working as a police officer in South Florida, Chase Fopiano did not think cyberattacks on police agencies were a serious threat. Many of his law enforcement colleagues were under the same impression — that since they were the most likely to investigate […]

North Dakota farmers feeling effects of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s health kick

By The Dakotan on April 28, 2025

By: Jeff Beach (ND Monitor) Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s push to “Make America Healthy Again” is making some North Dakota farmers queasy. Kennedy’s MAHA movement shuns highly processed foods and dyes. But it also includes an attack on oils made from seeds such as sunflowers and canola, with North Dakota […]

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