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Native American activist Peltier is welcomed on ND reservation

BELCOURT (AP) — Native American activist Leonard Peltier was defiant toward the government but grateful for his supporters as they welcomed him home to North Dakota on Wednesday, a day after his release from a Florida prison where he had been serving a life sentence in the 1975 killings of ...

Peltier leaves prison after sentence was commuted

SUMTERVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his life sentence to home confinement in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. Peltier, 80, left ...

ND leader in limiting China land purchases, sees no reason to stop

BISMARCK (AP) — It's been three years since a Chinese company's plan to develop a swath of farmland near a North Dakota Air Force base prompted local security concerns and led to a rush of legislation across the country, but calls for restrictions keep coming. If anything, the demand by ...

Big Oil wants a lot from Trump, It has an ally in Burgum

BISMARCK (AP) — When North Dakota's petroleum association was going to hold a banquet honoring top fracking executives last year, it turned to Gov. Doug Burgum. The two-term Republican, now President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Interior Department, co-hosted the event — at the ...

Senate confirms Burgum as interior secretary

(AP) — The Senate confirmed Doug Burgum as interior secretary late Thursday after President Donald Trump tapped the North Dakota billionaire to spearhead the Republican administration's ambitions to boost fossil fuel production. The vote was 79-18. More than half of Senate Democrats joined ...

Trial underway on ND’s ban on gender-affirming care for kids

BISMARCK (AP) — A trial in a lawsuit seeking to strike down North Dakota's ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors began Monday, more than a year after families of transgender children and a doctor filed the suit that argued the law violates the state's constitution. North Dakota is ...

North Dakota’s ban on gender-affirming care for kids heads to trial

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A lawsuit seeking to strike down North Dakota's ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors will go to trial Monday, more than a year after families of transgender children and a doctor filed the suit that argued the law violates ...