LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, March 12 -- Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge issued the following news release: Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge joined 20 state attorneys general in urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to uphold a lower court order halting President Biden's unlawful vaccine mandate for federal contractors. Last fall, Rutledge along with 9 other state attorneys general successfully blocked the Biden Administration's vaccine mandate for federal contra  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, March 12 -- North Dakota Attorney Drew Wrigley issued the following news release: Attorney General Drew H. Wrigley announced that Matthew Holden, doing business as Affordable Flooring, has been banned from doing business in the state of North Dakota. Holden took advance payments from homeowners in Burleigh and Morton Counties for home improvement projects, including flooring materials and installation, and then did not deliver the materials or complete the work. The B  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, March 9 -- Gov. Doug Burgum, R-North Dakota, issued the following news on March 8, 2022: Gov. Doug Burgum today reaffirmed North Dakota's support for the Ukrainian people in a phone call with Serhiy Koledov, consul general of Ukraine in Chicago. Burgum noted that North Dakota has many residents who can trace their ancestry to Ukraine. "All North Dakotans are standing in solidarity with you and your country," he told Koledov. The governor proclaimed (https://www.governo  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, March 8 (TNSPer) -- Gov. Doug Burgum, R-North Dakota, issued the following statement on March 7, 2022: * * * Gov. Doug Burgum released the following statement today after state Sen. Ray Holmberg of Grand Forks announced that he will retire from the Legislature when his current term ends Nov. 30. Holmberg has served in the Senate since Dec. 1, 1976, and is currently the longest-serving member of the Legislature in consecutive terms. "For more than 45 years, Sen. Ray Ho  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, March 9 -- Gov. Doug Burgum, R-North Dakota, issued the following statement on March 8, 2022: * * * Gov. Doug Burgum today released the following statement after President Joe Biden announced a ban on the import of Russian oil, liquified natural gas and coal to the United States. "Banning Russian energy imports is the right step for the United States, our allies and the Ukrainian people suffering at the hands of Putin's armed forces, which are funded with income from R  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, March 11 -- Gov. Doug Burgum, R-North Dakota, issued the following news on March 10, 2022: As COVID-19 trends continue to improve and the second anniversary of the first recorded case in North Dakota approaches, Gov. Doug Burgum today announced that the State of North Dakota is preparing for a shift toward an endemic status in the future. "In North Dakota, we have used a common-sense, data-driven approach to protecting the vulnerable, preserving individual freedoms and   more

PULLMAN, Washington, March 9 (TNSJou) -- Washington State University issued the following news release: Flaring of natural gas from oil wells appeared to cause an increase of around 11,000 hospital visits for respiratory reasons in North Dakota up to 60 miles away from oil drilling sites, according to new research. The paper, recently published in the Journal of Public Economics, examines the environmental health costs of flaring, or burning natural gas by-products during crude oil extraction,  more