Dwight News

North Dakota lawmakers have agreed to get rid of a state income tax form that few taxpayers use.

Critics of the measure argued the income and property reductions deserve separate votes, while one senator denounced the income tax reductions as too puny.

All North Dakotan's should benefit from the state's surplus not just those who own homes.. That's the idea behind a proposal to cut North Dakota's income tax rates for the next two years.

Unless oil prices take a sudden jump, North Dakota's petroleum industry may start reaping the benefits of a substantial tax cut that could decrease state tax collections by almost $10 million a month.

North Dakota legislators have gone home for a short vacation after the first session and will be back to work on Wednesday.

The value of North Dakota crop production last year nearly equaled the record set in 2007.

Two competing bills affecting rural zoning are still alive in the North Dakota Legislature.

MANDAN SEN. DWIGHT COOK'S BILL WOULD HAVE GIVEN THE GOVERNING BOARDS OF CITIES, COUNTIES AND TOWNSHIPS AUTHORITY TO CALL A SPECIAL ELECTION ON A PROPOSED LANDFILL LOCATION.

A proposal to give townships virtual veto power over the zoning of a garbage dump has been defeated in the North Dakota Senate.

Rep. Dwight Wrangham is sponsoring a bill to lower the North Dakota sales tax by half a percentage for one biennium.

We've seen partisan local elections, and we've seen nonpartisan local elections.

Supporters of a North Dakota sales tax cut say it would benefit more people than any of the Legislature's other proposals to reduce taxes.

But another prominent Republican, Secretary of State Al Jaeger, doesn't like the idea.