North Dakota Government News

AAA North Dakota spokesman Gene LaDoucer says he expects the state to break the statewide average of $4.08 a gallon.

Forty states saw their unemployment rates fall in April, although most of the changes weren't statistically significant, the Labor Department said Friday .

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Federal lawmakers are trying to prevent the Army Corps of Engineers from charging residents and businesses for using Missouri River reservoir water.

Twenty-one North Dakotans have been killed in The War on Terror in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Earlier this year, Congress passed an extension to the 2008 Farm Bill after the House failed to bring the 2012 version to the floor for consideration.

Breathe a sigh of relief, Blue Dog haters: Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin will not run for the South Dakota Senate seat.

North Dakota Sens. John Hoeven and Heidi Heitkamp and Rep. Kevin Cramer asked the FAA to keep it open after passing state legislation that gives the agency a larger budget to help keep it open through the night.

The only 24-7 air traffic control tower in the Dakotas will stay open through the night, after North Dakota's congressional delegation pleaded with the Federal Aviation Administration to keep the Fargo facility open at all times.

Senate Ag Chair Debbie Stabenow's mark is expected to provide for small cuts to food stamps and to curb crop insurance subsidies for high-income farmers.

The legislative session is over but the Governor has some work to do. He still has five bills left to take action on, including funding for higher education, K-12, property tax relief and transportation needs.

During the legislative session, lawmakers took up Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.

North Dakota's Republican-led Legislature took the entire 80 days allowed by law to spend a record amount of cash from the state's oil-fueled coffers.

One of the largest appropriations bills this session sailed through the floor of the House this morning.

North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple signed two bills into law today that dealt with allocating money for the Department of Human Services and for water projects in the state.

The next two-year budget for North Dakota's Department of Human Services has broken a billion-dollar barrier.

The United States has double the amount of oil and three times the amount of natural gas than previously thought, stored deep under the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana, according to new data the Obama administration released Tuesday.

North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar say a bill to authorize a Red River flood diversion project should reach the Senate floor Monday.

A federal reassessment of oil-and-gas resources in North Dakota found the state holds twice as much shale oil - and three times as much gas - than was previously estimated.

Jack Dalrymple has appointed a new executive director of the North Dakota Department of Human Services.