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Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem warns all North Dakotans that the best way to stop a scam is to simply hang up. Every day the Attorney General’s Consumer Protection division receives reports from people who have lost money to scams.

Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem is advising all North Dakotans to be on the alert for unlicensed contractor Stephen Webster Hill. 

An official newspaper of a political subdivision must be printed to qualify under the statute.

The North Prairie Regional Water District violated the open meetings laws when it did not comply with the notice requirements for a special meeting and approved minutes that did not contain all the information required by statute.

As the discussion of an employee’s job performance and compensation were conducted during a properly noticed public meeting of the North Prairie Regional Water District, there was no violation of the law.

Late yesterday afternoon, North Dakota sued the Federal government, including the Department of Interior and the Bureau of Land Management, because BLM has unlawfully cancelled the regularly scheduled auctions of oil & gas leases of public mineral rights in North Dakota that BLM is required by federal law to hold.  

Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem is warning all North Dakota residents about another new twist to an old scam. 

Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem today released the annual Crime Report detailing crime statistics for 2020. The report is compiled from information reported by local law enforcement agencies across the state.

North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem welcomed Judge Boasberg’s Order today denying the effort to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline from continuing to operate pending completion of a court-ordered Environmental Impact Statement on a short portion of the pipeline where it crosses under the Missouri River.

The City of Minot violated the open records law when it did not conduct a review of records before claiming they were exempt as attorney work product. The city must conduct the review and release any records that do not have statutory protections.