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1 day ago | 
bismarcktribune.com | Grant Coursey
A special session appears less likely to some and more likely to others in the North Dakota Legislature after legislative leadership met Thursday to appoint lawmakers to interim committees. During the last Legislative Management Committee meeting on May 28, Senate Majority Leader David Hogue, R-Minot, directed Legislative Council -- a nonpartisan service agency responsible for supporting lawmakers -- to brief Legislative Management on scenarios that could spawn a special session.
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2 days ago | 
govtech.com | Grant Coursey
Officials said mobilizing state resources has so far been largely unnecessary because of the “phenomenal” response to the disaster by local communities. Officials with the state Department of Emergency Services said in a statement Monday that they do not have a dollar amount for disaster damages yet, nor do they know the full number of homes that were impacted.
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3 days ago | 
bismarcktribune.com | Grant Coursey
A North Dakota legislator who said he was going to bring forward a ballot measure to try to make the state pay local property taxpayers' portion of school district funding has abandoned his plan. Rep.
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4 days ago | 
bismarcktribune.com | Grant Coursey
North Dakota agencies continue to work with local authorities to organize relief efforts and compile damage assessments in the wake of Friday’s deadly storms. Officials said mobilizing state resources has so far been largely unnecessary because of the “phenomenal” response to the disaster by local communities.
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2 weeks ago | 
bismarcktribune.com | Grant Coursey
North Dakota’s Quentin Burdick Job Corps Center in Minot and its outreach staff in other cities including Bismarck are in limbo while a federal pause on operations at contractor-operated Job Corps centers around the country makes its way through the courts. The U.S. Department of Labor on May 29 announced the pause, which was set to take effect on June 30 with centers slowly phasing out employees and students before then.
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3 weeks ago | 
bismarcktribune.com | Grant Coursey
The North Dakota Legislature’s legal counsel on Friday said only a special session can constitutionally correct a $35 million budgeting mistake made in a recent line-item veto by Gov. Kelly Armstrong's office -- rejecting the governor’s claim that a veto letter could clarify the error.
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3 weeks ago | 
bismarcktribune.com | Grant Coursey
Former Democratic lawmaker from Minot Robert (Bob) M. Horne died surrounded by family and friends on March 16 in Mesa, Arizona, at the age of 87. Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | SoundStack | All Of Our Podcasts A celebration of Bob's Life will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, June 28, 2025, at First United Methodist Church in Fargo, North Dakota, with visitation one hour prior.
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3 weeks ago | 
bismarcktribune.com | Grant Coursey
The Trump administration has deleted a list of sanctuary jurisdictions that included seven North Dakota counties after receiving national backlash for adding a multitude of jurisdictions that have supported the administration's immigration policies. The Department of Homeland Security removed the list of jurisdictions it claimed obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration laws from its website on Sunday. Now, a “page not found” message is all that appears in its place.
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3 weeks ago | 
bismarcktribune.com | Grant Coursey
North Dakota has the highest rate of measles in the country after six new cases appeared over the weekend. The total number of confirmed cases in the state jumped to 34 over the weekend, with three new cases confirmed in Williams County and three confirmed in Grand Forks County. This makes North Dakota the state with the highest rate of measles in the country with 4.27 cases per 100,000 people, knocking New Mexico, with 3.7 cases per 100,000, off of the top spot.
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3 weeks ago | 
bismarcktribune.com | Grant Coursey
The North Dakota State Investment Board on Tuesday appointed Jodi Smith as the permanent executive director of the North Dakota Retirement and Investment Office. Smith was named the interim executive director in January following Jan Murtha's resignation, announced in November 2024. Smith will receive a salary of $244,536.
