On July 1, the start of a new fiscal year for most educational institutions, many school districts anticipated receiving a ...

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

The U.S. Supreme Court put a temporary freeze on North Dakota’s legislative district map, keeping it in place pending next ...

A conservative Supreme Court Justice put a pause on a lower court ruling that would have blocked people in some states from ...

An essential tenet of the Voting Rights Act hangs in the balance on the Supreme Court’s shadow docket as the justices decide ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Bret Kavanaugh halted an 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that said tribes could not bring a Voting Rights Act lawsuit, which would have changed the legislative map.

The federal courts draw from panels of approved private defense attorneys when federal public defenders cannot take a case.

A congressional committee has approved a spending bill that contains provisions to block the Justice Department from ...

Funds to pay contracted attorneys dried up July 3, according to the Federal Public Defender's Office in North Dakota and South Dakota. That could result in delays for justice and harm to defendants.

The Spirit Lake Nation and Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa asked the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals not to reinstate a North ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — A federal appeals court won’t reconsider its decision in a redistricting case that went against two Native ...