The Senate has voted 79-18 to confirm former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to serve as Interior Secretary in President Donald ...

Doug Burgum, former North Dakota governor and businessman is President Donald ... Interior oversees public and federal lands and their natural resources, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the National ...

The former governor of North Dakota ran on his experience ... and federal lands and their natural resources, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the National Park Service and the Fish and Wildlife ...

Burgum also would oversee many tribal functions, particularly the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau ... “Tribal consultation to me as governor of North Dakota is spending time going to tribes ...

In his confirmation hearing Thursday before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Department of the Interior, former North ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Former North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum has been confirmed as the next Secretary of the ...

Burgum, currently the governor of North Dakota, appeared before the committee ... The Interior Department includes the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which is the primary federal agency that oversees ...

Trump nominated the former North Dakota governor at a Mar-a-Lago gala on ... Reclamation, and Indian Affairs, and the U.S. Geological Survey, among others.

Another fatal shooting took place on Dec. 29, when an officer with the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs shot a man who was allegedly driving erratically near the northern North Dakota town of ...

16 (UPI) --Former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum told ... Burgum would lead several agencies including the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs and the National Park Service.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs did not respond to a request for ... would be in everyone’s best interest. It requires the governor of the state to concur. That was never going to happen for ...