The state of North Dakota urged the U.S. Supreme Court to let it use its preferred legislative district map after an appellate court found a federal judge was wrong to change the district lines last ...

Lawyers for North Dakota on Tuesday urged the court to leave in place a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th ...

A sign in Devils Lake, North Dakota, marks the road leading to the Spirit Lake Reservation. (Jeff Beach/North Dakota ...

Two North Dakota tribes and a group of tribal citizens have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to keep North Dakota’s district map ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — A federal appeals court won’t reconsider its decision in a redistricting case that went against two Native American tribes that challenged North Dakota’s legislative redistricting map ...

U.S. Supreme Justice Bret Kavanaugh halted an Eight Circuit Court Appeals ruling that said tribes could not bring a Voting ...

North Dakota has 47 legislative districts, each with one senator and two representatives. Republicans control the House of Representatives 82-12, and the Senate 43-4.

A group of plaintiffs challenging North Dakota’s state legislative maps came to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, asking the ...

BISMARCK — Two lawsuits challenging North Dakota's new legislative districts will not affect the political map for this year’s election cycle, according to lawyers working on the cases ...

The U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Dec. 22 deadline set by North Dakota U.S. District Judge Peter Welte. In November, Welte ruled that the map diluted the Native American vote.

Unless North Dakota lawmakers get an 11th-hour reprieve, they will miss the deadline to redraw a legislative map that, according to a federal judge, violated the rights of Native American voters.

Since North Dakota has five watersheds, the study, if passed, would likely inform future legislation to establish as many districts. A map of North Dakota's watersheds, otherwise known as drainage ...