North Dakota Legislature

In my last column, I shared the standard definitions of biomass, bioproducts, bioenergy and biofuels. You may recall that the definition of bioproducts is extremely broad because it encompasses all products made with living material: food, feed, fiber,...

LINTON, N.D. (AP) - The official North Dakota horse could be wiped off the state map. A conservancy group says high hay prices caused by a prolonged drought and a sharp drop in donations have combined to limit food supplies and threaten breeding herds...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Everyone from students to lawmakers are getting the day off after a record-breaking snow storm in North Dakota over the weekend. National Weather Service reports show as much as a foot and a half of snow fell in western and...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Gov. Jack Dalrymple signed legislation Tuesday that that would make North Dakota the nation's most restrictive state on abortion rights, banning the procedure if a fetal heartbeat can be detected — something that can...

FARGO, N.D. -- Gerald "Jerry" Stokka is a new kind of livestock specialist at North Dakota State University -- sort of a people's philosopher for the industry. His specialty? Livestock stewardship. Stokka says his entire career has prepared him for...

FARGO, N.D. -- A new state specialist unveiled North Dakota State University's new Soil Health and Land Management Initiative at the Northern Ag Expo in Fargo, N.D., Nov. 27 and 28. Abbey Wick, an assistant professor of soil science and an extension...

Smoking huts outside bars around North Dakota will go the way of horse carriage garages when a new statewide smoking ban takes effect. North Dakota has joined 29 other states in passing a more stringent statewide ban on indoor smoking in public places and...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - For a decade Jeff Rosenthal has campaigned to toughen the consequences for people who neglect, abuse and torture animals in Idaho. And for just as long, the director of the Idaho Humane Society has received the legislative stiff-...

It is difficult to say who is most responsible for unsettled debts of North Dakota Natural Beef LLC - whether a legal or moral duty lies with that company's board, or with the board of the North American Bison Cooperative LLC, which has become its...

 BOISE, Idaho (AP) — For a decade Jeff Rosenthal has campaigned to toughen the consequences for people who neglect, abuse and torture animals in Idaho.    And for just as long, the director of the Idaho Humane Society has received the legislative...

FARGO, N.D. - The Anderson Seed Co. Inc., case - with some $4 million in unpaid sunflower deliveries in two states - is the latest case that screams out for higher bond amounts for elevators in cases of insolvency, a North Dakota lawyer says. Anderson...

 PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Any state law supporting the use of hydraulic fracturing as an oil production technique would be trumped by any federal regulations that might be passed, an aide to Gov. Dennis Daugaard said Thursday.   Nathan Sanderson, a...