North Dakota News
Sunday, November 8, 2026
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s primary election turnout was the lowest in decades. Data from the Secretary of State’s Office show turnout for Tuesday’s election was 17 percent, with just more than 93,000 people making it to the polls. The agency has been keeping turnout […]
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – U.S. senators from the Dakotas and other areas are making another attempt at having the bison declared the national mammal. Sens. Tim Johnson and John Thune of South Dakota and John Hoeven and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota are among those introducing the […]
LISBON, N.D. (AP) – A judge has dismissed a murder case against a North Dakota woman accused of her son’s death. The judge’s move came at the request of prosecutors in the case against 30-year-old Jodi Lindvall. Prosecutors asked for the dismissal after discovering a recording of a […]
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – An audit of North Dakota’s Game and Fish Department found scores of discrepancies with the agency’s practices, including improper payments to employees and more than 100 guns that are missing from a volunteer hunter education program. The state auditor’s office criticized the agency’s misuse […]
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Seven couples have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the ban on same-sex marriage in North Dakota, the last remaining state without a court challenge. The clerk of the court confirmed that the lawsuit was filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Fargo. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki has resigned amid widespread troubles in the VA health care system. President Barack Obama says he accepted the resignation with “considerable regret.” He and Shinseki met in the Oval Office on Friday morning. Shinseki had faced mounting calls […]
Los Angeles (CSi) “Fargo” the TV show is in the running for the Critics’ Choice Television Awards, category of Best Miniseries, tying with four other shows or movies for the most nominations this year. The nominations were announced Wednesday by the Broadcast Television Journalists Association. Along with “Fargo,” nominated for […]
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – State health officials are cautioning North Dakotans to guard themselves against hantavirus disease. Hantavirus is transmitted by infected mice. Epidemiologist Michelle Feist (fyst) says it’s important to take precautions because there’s no cure, and the disease can be fatal. Feist says people […]
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) – Author and poet Maya Angelou (MY’-ah ANJ’-eh-loh), who rose from poverty, segregation and violence to become a force on stage, screen and the printed page, has died. She was 86. Wake Forest University announced Angelou’s death in a news release Wednesday. She […]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama says the United States is finishing the job it started in Afghanistan. The president says he will seek to bring the U.S. force in Afghanistan down to 9,800 as the American combat mission ends later this year. He then intends to withdraw […]
