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1 month ago | mydakotan.com | Nd Monitor |Kim Fundingsland |Charlene Nelson |Lydia Hoverson

By: ND MonitorThe leader of the Dakota Medical Foundation will take a one-year leave from that position to head up the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services. Gov. Kelly Armstrong on Friday announced that Pat Traynor will serve as the interim leader for Health and Human Services beginning June 2. Health and Human Services is North Dakota’s largest government agency. It has a two-year budget of  $5.7 billion and nearly 2,500 authorized full-time employees.

Mar 20, 2025 | kfyrtv.com | Nd Monitor |Amy Dalrymple

BISMARCK, N.D. (ND MONITOR) - A former North Dakota lawmaker set to be sentenced next week for a child sex crime has a history of leveraging his power to exploit vulnerable boys and young men, a prosecutor alleges in court documents filed Wednesday. Ray Holmberg, once one of the state’s most powerful lawmakers, will be sentenced in U.S. District Court in Fargo on March 26 after pleading guilty in August to traveling abroad to have sex with adolescent boys.

Mar 17, 2025 | kfyrtv.com | Mary Steurer |Nd Monitor

MANDAN, N.D. (N.D. MONITOR) - Greenpeace and the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline on Monday had their final showdown in the three-week trial over whether the environmental group engaged in a destructive and defamatory campaign against the pipeline that resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.

Jan 27, 2025 | bismarcktribune.com | Michael Achterling |Nd Monitor

North Dakota school districts would be required to develop a cellphone policy but retain con…

Jan 7, 2025 | bismarcktribune.com | Mary Steurer |Nd Monitor

Advocates celebrate 2023 legislation capping insulin prices for people on the state employee health insurance plan in a signing ceremony at the North Dakota Capitol with Gov. Doug Burgum in May 2024. Angela Kritzberger, second from right, and her daughter Nina, third from right, plan to travel to Bismarck this week to testify in favor of a bill to extend the caps to the general North Dakota commercial insurance market.