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The son of U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., will spend decades in prison after he was convicted of killing a sheriff’s deputy in a crash while fleeing law enforcement. Ian Cramer, 43, will serve 28 years in prison for the death of 53-year-old Mercer County Sheriff’s Deputy Paul Martin, which took place on Dec. 6, […]
The owner of the Dakota Access Pipeline last week became the latest party to join the defense in the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s new lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The lawsuit, filed in October, accuses the Army Corps of illegally allowing the Dakota Access Pipeline to operate without an easement, an environmental impact […]
A group of North Dakota tribal citizens and conservation advocates are calling on President Joe Biden to make roughly 140,000 acres of undeveloped federal land in western North Dakota into a national monument. The proposed Maah Daah Hey National Monument would preserve land recognized as sacred by members of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation […]
The courts will return traditional public access to new filings when they are received, access that had been lost in the transition to electronic records. In a court order Thursday, U.S. District Judge Lawrence Piersol kept jurisdiction over an action brought by Courthouse News while the South Dakota courts put in place a system that […]
President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he plans to name North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to lead the Department of Interior. “We’re going to do things with energy and with land, Interior that is going to be incredible,” Trump said during a Thursday event at Mar-a-Lago. A clip of the event was captured on CSPAN. “I […]
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, pictured at a campaign rally early this month in Michigan, would play a key role in pushing President-leect Donald Trump’s agenda to increase oil, gas and coal production on public lands if he is confirmed as secretary of the Interior Department. (Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP/Getty Images) President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday night […]
The president-elect is rapidly filling out his cabinet with Republican lawmakers and loyalists just a week after Americans sent him back to the White House. WASHINGTON (CN) — President-elect Donald Trump is set to appoint South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem to lead his administration’s Department of Homeland Security, putting the firebrand state leader at the […]
South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem is President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to run the federal Department of Homeland Security, according to reports from media outlets including CNN. The news network cited “two people familiar with the situation” in its story early Tuesday morning. Noem’s office did not immediately respond to messages from South Dakota Searchlight. […]
Voters in Florida, South Dakota and Nebraska rejected efforts to expand abortion access in their state constitutions — breaking a streak of ballot wins for abortion rights following the 2022 Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. But voters in seven other states — Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, New York and Nevada — opted to codify […]
In the Lincoln County High School auditorium in Eureka on Wednesday, Montana State Rep. Neil Duram and Dakota Adams introduced themselves to a small audience ahead of a candidate forum led by the school’s civics class. Duram, the Republican incumbent, talked about his career in law enforcement and his work during the last three legislative […]