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North Dakota Senate defeats plan for legislative sessions every year

By The Dakotan on April 14, 2025

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 […]

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

By The Dakotan on April 14, 2025

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 […]

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

By The Dakotan on April 14, 2025

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. […]

More than 5M could lose Medicaid coverage if feds impose work requirements

By K.L. Collom on April 14, 2025

By: Shalina Chatlani(Stateline Reporter) Under an emerging Republican plan to require some Medicaid recipients to work, between 4.6 million and 5.2 million adults ages 19 to 55 could lose their health care coverage, according to a new analysis. The study, conducted by Urban Institute researchers with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, calculated that […]

Alderman Rob Fuller Announces Bid for Mayor

By K.L. Collom on April 14, 2025

Minot-Alderman Rob Fuller, 52, sat down with Jonathan Starr the morning of Monday April 14 to announce his intentions to run for Mayor. Fuller looks to give Minot a "fresh start" following the resignation of Tom Ross at the beginning of this month. Fuller was elected to city council in June of 2024 and looks […]

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

By The Dakotan on April 14, 2025

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 […]

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

By The Dakotan on April 14, 2025

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 […]

Like a Phoenix Rising From the Ashes, Dire Wolves are Reborn: Could They Return to ND?-Collom's Column

By K.L. Collom on April 12, 2025

Romulus, Remus, and now Khaleesi and Titus are the first living dire wolves in more than 10,000 years. Born through advanced genetic engineering in late 2024 and early 2025, these pups represent a monumental leap in science, one that has long been theorized over and now seems to be reality. Thanks to the work of […]

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

By The Dakotan on April 12, 2025

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 […]

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

By The Dakotan on April 12, 2025

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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