North Dakota
ND Rural Water Systems Association celebrates 50 years

BISMARCK, ND (kxnet) — Members of the North Dakota Rural Water Systems Association (NDRWSA) celebrated their 50th Anniversary on Tuesday, July 16, at North Dakota’s Gateway to Science in Bismarck.
The association was established with a mission to ensure that all North Dakotans had access to affordable and clean drinking water. It was founded the same year that the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Gerald Ford.
Since then, the NDRWSA has helped many rural areas across the state with funding and construction of water systems, giving clean and affordable drinking water to many North Dakotans living in rural communities across our state.
“So, even after 50 years, there’s still people out there, in Rural North Dakota that are hauling water. There’s still people in small communities that drink sub-standard water,” said Eric Volk, Executive Director of NDRWSA.
Volk says the association still has more important work to do in the coming years to ensure other rural communities are not forgotten. “There’s partnerships out there, between the State of North Dakota, the Federal Government, and the local entities. I think we all can accomplish our goal,” of expanding access to more rural communities he said.
Volk adds that a little over 300,000 people in North Dakota receive their drinking water from rural water systems, that serve 268 towns across the state.

North Dakota
After fall, Sen. Kevin Cramer rebounding from 'severe concussion'

BISMARCK — Hundreds are sending their well wishes on Facebook after U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-ND, posted that he had sustained injuries after an icy fall in his backyard in Bismarck on Sunday, Feb. 23.
“While walking on the hill down to the dock, I stepped on ice and evidently fell hard, hitting the back of my head. I do not remember anything from the fall until arriving at Sanford Health emergency room,”
Cramer wrote on Facebook.
Now, the senator is taking a pause from his job in Washington to rest up, per doctor’s orders, and taking it “day-to-day” while navigating some pretty bad headaches.
“After seeing the emergency doctor, taking some tests, including a CT Scan, and seeing a neurologist, I was diagnosed with a severe concussion, a seizure, and a slight brain bleed,” Cramer wrote on Facebook. “The wound on my head wouldn’t stop oozing, so the doctor punched a couple of staples on the laceration and admitted me.”
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North Dakota
District 27 Republicans to meet to fill ND House vacancy

FARGO — North Dakota District 27 Republicans will meet March 6, 2025, to fill a vacancy in the North Dakota House of Representatives left by the death of Rep. Josh Christy.
The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at Southern Valley Fire and Rescue, 413 Main St., Horace, North Dakota.
Christy, a Republican,
died Feb. 18, in Bismarck at the age of 43.
Christy won his first election to serve in the House for District 27 in 2022.
District 27 includes parts of southwest Fargo but mostly covers east Cass County south of Fargo down to County Road 46. It extends from the Red River to the west of Horace.
State law directs that a district must choose a replacement for a lawmaker if their seat is vacated.
Christy’s replacement will finish his term, which ends in 2026.
North Dakota
Letter: Sen. Larson's comment about proposed Grand Forks casino was disgraceful

To the editor,
What a disgrace for the comment made by Sen. Diane Larson,
who suggested before a North Dakota Senate vote that a proposed casino in Grand Forks
might be backed by cartels. She has no knowledge of economic development and how that can help North Dakota cities like Grand Forks.
I have seen how Grand Forks has struggled since the pandemic and this casino would have been an asset to other businesses. Hopefully others in the Senate will see the benefit and bring this issue back.
It’s time to let the people speak and tell Diane Larson to go back home! This is the kind of faulty decisions that keep North Dakota from going forward and prospering.
Diane Hoverson
Grafton, North Dakota
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