MINOT — On Monday, voters across North Dakota were bombarded with text messages urging Democrats to vote for U.S. House candidate Rick Becker on the Republican primary ballot. North Dakota has an open ...

MINOT — Political prognostication is an exercise in signs and portents. Sometimes we base our predictions on real data, like polls and past electoral trends. Sometimes it's more nebulous ...

MINOT — Measure 4, the proposal to abolish taxes on property values in North Dakota, has always been a fairy tale. One in which we can somehow blow a $3 billion hole in our state budget without paying ...

MINOT — Earlier this year, ahead of the June primary vote, thousands of North Dakota voters received anonymous text messages aimed at helping Rick Becker win the NDGOP's U.S. House nomination. One set ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A former North Dakota lawmaker is running for the state's only seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Republican U.S. Rep. Kelly Armstrong, an attorney and former state ...

Becker, a darling of the populist faction of the NDGOP, is suddenly critical of Trump as he runs to reclaim a seat in the state Legislature. State Rep. Rick Becker delivers a speech to delegates in ...

A great opportunity lies ahead of North Dakota voters with Measure 4. Ground-breaking in nature, Measure 4 gives people major property tax relief, and completely reforms how local taxing is done. The ...