Rep. Bernie Satrom, R-Jamestown, speaks on the House floor on March 25, 2025. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — The state may soon start development on a new website detailing its Legacy Fund holdings after the North Dakota Senate last week unanimously passed an investment transparency bill. The Legacy Fund, worth more than $12 billion as of…
Attorney General Drew Wrigley, center, listens March 24, 2025, to testimony on a bill he supports related to criminal sentences. Law enforcement attended the hearing in support of the bill. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — A divisive prison sentencing bill introduced by Attorney General Drew Wrigley’s office failed in the House Thursday after more…
Colby Braun, director of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, speaks during the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Heart River Correctional Center on April 2, 2025. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — The rehabilitation of female inmates in North Dakota took a large step forward Wednesday as state officials celebrated the groundbreaking of the first prison in…
Sen. Janne Myrdal, R-Edinburg, speaks on the Senate floor during debate on a property tax bill on April 3, 2025. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — The North Dakota Senate unanimously passed a property tax bill Thursday, but adopted major amendments that could set up a conference committee showdown between the House and Senate. Amendments to House Bill…
FARGO (KFGO) – The mother of a 19-year-old woman who died while in the Rolette County Jail in northern North Dakota has been granted a court judgment with the county and two former correctional officers. Jessica Allen will be paid $2 million. Court documents say In June of 2020, Lacey Higdem was found in the woods. She was hallucinating and…
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — An Underwood, Minnesota man is sentenced to five years in prison for having hundreds of grams in illegal drugs. 24-year-old Zachary Seaburg was arrested last September after state troopers found 264 grams of meth, 24 grams of cocaine and suspected fentanyl in his vehicle. Court documents show there were needles and a baggie of M30…
Sen. Tim Mathern, D-Fargo, speaks on the Senate floor during the organizational session on Dec. 4, 2024. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — A state senator wants to more than double the staff for the North Dakota Ethics Commission, arguing the state should be doing more to prevent public corruption. The amendment was brought before the House…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KVRR/FOX) — Every employee at a program that assists low-income households in paying heating and cooling bills has been let go as part of DOGE cuts, Department of Government Efficiency. Division of Energy Assistance ran the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP. It helped nearly 6 million people each year across the country. In Minnesota, around 130,000…
FARGO, ND – AUGUST 08, 2024: Former ND Sen. Ray Holmberg (center) arrives at the Quentin N. Burdick U.S. Courthouse in Fargo for Holmberg’s plea hearing in North Dakota U.S. District Court.BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — The North Dakota Young Republicans filed a resolution urging lawmakers to study child exploitation by public officials in wake of former Republican Sen….
Rep. Lawrence Klemin, R-Bismarck, leads a meeting of the House Judiciary Committee on March 24, 2025. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — A committee passed amendments and removed a key provision in a contentious prison sentencing bill Monday. The House Judiciary Committee still gave Senate Bill 2128 a do-not-pass recommendation. Committee chair Rep. Lawrence Klemin, R-Bismarck, who…
