Spirit Lake Tribe provides IDs for members in Twin Cities during immigration crackdown, as...
DEVILS LAKE – Spirit Lake Tribe Public Relations Specialist Vicki Alberts just returned from a trip to the Twin Cities, where she coordinated an event to help tribal members get identification. “Tribal IDs and Certificates of Degree of Indian Blood (CDIB), as well,” she said on Monday, Jan. 26. “We actually assisted about 72 tribal members from ages 4 on up.”
Minneapolis mourns ICU nurse killed by Border Patrol agent as a warmhearted neighbor and...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As Minneapolis mourned the intensive care nurse killed by Border Patrol officers in a hail of gunfire, those who knew Alex Pretti came forward Sunday to dispute the narrative of top Trump administration officials that he was a violent “domestic terrorist” and would-be assassin.
Man shot and killed during Minneapolis immigration crackdown, police chief calls for calm
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal immigration officers shot and killed a man Saturday, Jan. 24 in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier.
ICE detains 5-year-old boy school official says was used as ‘bait’
A 5-year-old boy arriving home from preschool in Minnesota was taken by federal agents along with his father to a detention facility in Texas, school officials and the family’s lawyer said, making him the fourth student from his Minneapolis suburb to be detained by immigration officers in recent weeks.
Armstrong says ND’s rural health care challenges demand bold action in State of the...
BISMARCK, N.D. – North Dakota’s rural health care challenges demand bold action and new approaches, Gov. Kelly Armstrong said in the annual State of the State Address on Wednesday, Jan. 21 as the 69th Legislative Assembly convened in a special session to appropriate $199 million in federal funding for a statewide Rural Health Transformation Program.
State Senate Minority Leader Kathy Hogan announces retirement
FARGO, N.D. – On Thursday, Jan. 15, State Senate Minority Leader Kathy Hogan (D-Fargo) announced that she would not seek reelection, retiring this year at the end of her term with the North Dakota Legislature, according to a press release from the North Dakota Democratic-Nonpartisan League Party.
Armstrong to deliver State of the State address to special session of Legislature Jan....
BISMARCK, N.D. – Gov. Kelly Armstrong will deliver a State of the State address to a special session of the North Dakota 69th Legislative Assembly on Jan. 21 in the House of Representatives chamber of the State Capitol.
Man dies in grain elevator accident near Devils Lake
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. — A man died Wednesday morning, Jan. 14, after becoming trapped in a grain elevator pit near Devils Lake, N.D.
Farm champion U.S. Rep. LaMalfa of Calif. dies, Armstrong directed flags at half-staff
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Republican Doug LaMalfa, a California rice farmer who served seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and was a reliable vote on President Donald Trump’s agenda, has died at age 65. LaMalfa’s death reduces the GOP’s narrow control of the House to 218 seats to Democrats’ 213.
Lawyers for Devils Lake man serving 30 years for murder allege suppressed evidence in...
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. – Lawyers for plaintiff Werner Kunkel, a 65 year-old Devils Lake resident convicted over 30 years ago of murder, appeared with him in a two-day evidentiary hearing that began Jan. 7 at the Ramsey County Courthouse. They’re alleging that evidence from the original trial had been suppressed, including witness statements that allege Fassett was still alive past the date the state said he had been killed.