North Dakota Politics Information Directory

While Minnesota does not have the lowest unemployment rate in the country - that distinction belongs to neighboring North Dakota (at 4.2 percent) - the Gopher State has seen its unemployment rate improve from the 29th lowest in the ...

Furthermore, it seems irresponsible to allow particular voices dominate the construction of a North Dakota political identity. In absence of voter registration and strongly ideological politics (I would point to Hoeven's apolitical ...

[UPDATED X 2] I'm not going to write this blog post. It's not that I'm too lazy or that I don't understand it. I'm just not going to write it....

If you read nothing else about America's economic problems over the past couple years, read Matt Taibbi's piece in the Rolling Stone about the bank...

Kent Conrad, a North Dakota Democrat and chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. Obama last year admonished Congress to pass health care reform by August, and vowed to sign a reform bill in 2009. The Senate finally passed one in late ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — North Dakota's attorney general plans to ask Minnesota officials to support changing a law that makes North Dakota's coal-generated electricity more expensive to sell in Minnesota. Wayne Stenehjem said he has scheduled meetings in ...

The National Weather Service says there's a high risk for major flooding along North Dakota's Red River in the same area where residents held off record high waters last year. The flood outlook released Friday shows a 90 percent chance for major ...

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota ranks second among states in federal earmark dollars per capita, behind only Hawaii, a government watchdog group says. "Earmark'' is the term for home-state projects sought by lawmakers. Taxpayers for Common Sense ...

WASHBURN, N.D.—A Minnesota man has been sentenced in North Dakota to 15 years in prison for starting another man's van on fire while the man was inside. Fifty-three-year-old Joseph Carpenter was convicted of felony endangering by fire or explosion ...

The White House fondness for deadlines is once again playing havoc with President Obama's agenda, this time on health care. "If you don't set a deadline in this town, nothing happens," Obama said last year, just before Congress missed an earlier ...

Political advertisement from the National Republican Congressional Committee asking people to "Tell Gabrielle Giffords to stop voting with Obama." Expect to get a little health care with your basketball today. The National Republican Congressional ...

AP File Photo Lansing Mayor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Virg Bernero LANSING — Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero on Tuesday proposed having Michigan follow the lead of North Dakota and open a state-owned bank that could make low-interest loans ...

North Dakota's attorney general plans to ask Minnesota officials to support changing a law that makes North Dakota's coal-generated electricity more expensive to sell in Minnesota. Wayne Stenehjem said he has scheduled meetings in St. Paul on ...

Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero on Tuesday proposed having Michigan follow the lead of North Dakota and open a state-owned bank that could make low-interest loans to businesses and college students. The Democratic gubernatorial candidate said the state ...

LANSING, Mich. -- Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero on Tuesday proposed having Michigan follow the lead of North Dakota and open a state-owned bank that could make low-interest loans to businesses and college students. The Democratic gubernatorial candidate ...