GRAND FORKS — A bill establishing an immigration-focused law clinic at the University of North Dakota passed the House on Monday, Feb. 24. HB 1600 would allocate some $400,000 over the next biennium to a clinic employing one full-time staff attorney offering low-cost immigration legal services.

Students eat lunch at Carl Ben Eielson Middle School in Fargo on Jan. 22, 2025. Free school meal advocates in North Dakota are calling on the state Legislature to prioritize permanent funding to pay for meals. (Dan Koeck/For the North Dakota Monitor)

All three incorporate some form of cap on year-over-year tax increases and would be funded in part by earnings on the state’s Legacy Fund. One bill focuses mainly on tax reductions for residential property, while the other two would lower taxes for all kinds of property. Each proposal passed with near-total support from lawmakers.

House lawmakers passed two of more than a half-dozen proposed bills to regulate the possession of guns and dangerous weapons in the state.

The North Dakota Senate passed Attorney General Drew Wrigley's bill 28-18, sending the bill that would make violent offenders serve most of their sentences in prison to the House.

A study was requested by the North Dakota Brewers Guild. This comes at a time when in the last few months breweries in North Dakota have been shutting their doors. “Knowing that Minnesota and South Dakota and twenty-two states have already done this,

North Dakota House lawmakers voted to support a resolution on the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn it’s ruling on gay marriage rights.

If we can survive 47 below, we can do just about anything, right? Bismarck native Nolan Maher said growing up here prepared him for the biggest research experience of his life.

North Dakota plays the Saint Thomas Tommies after Treysen Eaglestaff scored 27 points in the Fightin' Hawks' 79-77 victory over the North Dakota State Bison.

Jacob Haug, North Dakota Children's Miracle Network Hospitals Champion Sanford Children's Fargo, was surprised with a free trip Disneyworld.FARGO — It was a happy day for one family at Sanford Children’s Hospital on Tuesday.