John Hoeven

The U.S. Department of the Interior is proposing a rule to require oil companies drilling on federal lands to publish chemicals used in fracking fluids, which North Dakota's congressional delegation says would interfere with state laws. "As North...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a new proposal for regulating hydraulic fracturing on federal lands, rolling back some measures from its original, abandoned draft as it sought to ease concerns the rules would be too...

Strange, isn't it? Bill Guy served as governor of North Dakota from 1961 to 1973. But when you read others' recollections of that service, you might find yourself forgetting that the era was one of the most divisive in the 20th century. Guy died...

At the time of this editorial's writing, the fate of House Continuing Resolution 3047 was unclear. Would the North Dakota Senate adopt the proposal to replace the state Board of Higher Education -- a proposal senators had rejected as recently as last...

President Barack Obama had a dinner date last week with a dozen of his worst enemies, thus proving that the governmental stalemate in Washington, D.C., is driving him to unusual acts of political creativity -- or desperation. The president personally...

WASHINGTON -- President Obama plans to continue his campaign to win hearts, minds and stomachs on Capitol Hill.   Obama is scheduled to have lunch with House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and his Democratic counterpart, Rep. Chris Van...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Efforts to stave off a late March government shutdown shifted to the Senate after House Republicans swiftly passed legislation to keep federal agencies running, while also easing some of the effects of $85 billion in budget cuts....

WASHINGTON — Chuck Hagel, who won two Purple Hearts in the Vietnam War, survived the turbulent battle over his nomination to lead the Pentagon, where he will confront two new challenges: potentially dramatic budget cuts and tensions with...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - The Democratic member of South Dakota's congressional delegation says President Barack Obama is taking the country in the right direction, but the two Republican members say Obama's State of the Union address did not show leadership.  ...

“Let's Just Blow Bubbles” was the topic of the keynote speech by Randi Schaeffer of Bismarck for the National Women Involved in Farm Economics (WIFE) convention at the Doublewood Inn of Bismarck, N.D., on November 14-17. “Learn and do something...

FARGO, N.D. (AP) - Senator-elect Heidi Heitkamp took a victory lap around North Dakota Thursday and pledged that her "job one" in Washington would be helping to craft farm legislation. Heitkamp told reporters after an event in Fargo that she had been...

BILLINGS, Mont. - In a letter sent on Oct. 31 to Agriculture Secretary Vilsack and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, R-CALF USA wrote that it strongly supports the bipartisan congressional requests for an investigation into the sheep procurement...