JACK DURA

Statehouse reporter

Dura covers the North Dakota state government for The Associated Press. He is based in Bismarck, North Dakota.
In this Thursday Dec. 1, 2016 file photo, the Oceti Sakowin camp where people have gathered to protest the Dakota Access oil pipeline stands in the background as a children sled down a hill in Cannon Ball, N.D. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
Pipeline company’s lawsuit against Greenpeace goes to a North Dakota jury
 
North Dakota Republican Rep. Jon Nelson listens during a committee meeting Thursday, March 13, 2025, at the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)
Why is an Elon Musk-backed PAC running an ad against Republican state legislators?
 
People listen to opposition testimony on a resolution that would urge the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its 2015 decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, Wednesday, March 12, 2025, at the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)
North Dakota Legislature close to asking US Supreme Court to undo landmark same-sex marriage ruling
 
A sign reading "Property rights matter, no CO2" stands by a highway near Strasburg, N.D., Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Jack Dura, File)
Midwest carbon-capture pipeline could be delayed after eminent domain ban in South Dakota
 
A sign reading "Property rights matter, no CO2" stands by a highway near Strasburg, N.D., Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Jack Dura, File)
South Dakota law raises questions about future of massive Midwest pipeline
 
A sign reading "Property rights matter, no CO2" stands by a highway near Strasburg, N.D., Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Jack Dura, File)
New South Dakota law threatens massive carbon dioxide pipeline proposed for Midwest
 
North Dakota state Republican Rep. Ben Koppelman, of West Fargo, stands at his desk in the House of Representatives in the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D., on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)
Fargo has an election method that helps mainstream candidates. North Dakota lawmakers may ban it
 
Dakota Access pipeline protesters defy law enforcement officers who are trying to force them from a camp on private land in the path of pipeline construction, Oct. 27, 2016, near Cannon Ball, N.D. (AP Photo/James MacPherson, File)
Trial begins in $300M lawsuit against Greenpeace over North Dakota pipeline protests
 
President John F. Kennedy slumps down in the back seat of the presidential limousine as it speeds along Elm Street toward the Stemmons Freeway overpass in Dallas, Texas, after being fatally shot, Nov. 22, 1963. First lady Jacqueline Kennedy leans over the president as Secret Service Agent Clint Hill pushes her back to her seat. (AP Photo/James W. "Ike" Altgens)
Clint Hill, Secret Service agent who leaped onto JFK’s car after the president was shot, dies at 93
 
Protesters against the Dakota Access oil pipeline congregate, Nov. 21, 2016, on a long-closed bridge on a state highway near Cannon Ball., N.D. near their camp in southern North Dakota. (AP Photo/James MacPherson, File)
Greenpeace says a pipeline company’s lawsuit threatens the organization’s future
 
Leonard Peltier, center, a Native American activist released from a Florida prison where he had been serving a life sentence in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents, greets well-wishers during a welcome event for him, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, at the Sky Dancer Casino Resort near Belcourt, N.D., on the Turtle Mountain Reservation. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)
Native American activist Leonard Peltier, freed from prison, is welcomed on North Dakota reservation
 
With temperatures below zero, steam rises over Lake Michigan Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
Arctic air sweeping south over Plains shatters record temperatures in North Dakota
 
Crews with Tombigbee Electric continue to restore power to homes along Lee County Rd 154 after Saturday's severe weather hit the region in Shannon Miss., Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (Thomas Wells/The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal via AP)
‘Life-threatening cold’ hits parts of US following deadly weekend flooding
 
This photo provided by the Great Plains Zoo in February 2025 shows taxidermy animals from the Brockhouse Collection at the Delbridge Museum of Natural History in Sioux Falls, S.D. (Great Plains Zoo via AP)
Tigers, zebras and other stuffed animals will get new homes after health concerns kept them hidden
 
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers wait to detain a person, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
North Dakota man accused of impersonating an ICE officer when jail staff released an inmate to him
 
In this photo released by the City of Grand Forks, land purchased by the Fufeng Group in Grand Forks, N.D., is seen Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (City of Grand Forks via AP)
North Dakota was a leader in limiting China land purchases and sees no reason to stop
 
The International Market Plaza in Fargo, N.D., is seen Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)
Settlement reached in North Dakota lawsuit alleging intimidation by white nationalist hate group
 
Ian Cramer visits with his attorney on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in a courtroom of the Burleigh County Courthouse in Bismarck, N.D. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)
Senator’s son pleads guilty in hospital crash that preceded chase leading to ND deputy’s death
 
Berthold-area farmer Roger Neshem testifies during a bill hearing on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, at the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)
North Dakota’s cloud seeding program draws interest from around the world. Opponents want to end it
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump listens as former Republican presidential candidate, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, speaks on stage during a campaign event in Laconia, N.H., Jan. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Trump’s Interior pick, Doug Burgum profited from the oil industry as governor
 
Plaintiff attorneys Jess Braverman, left, and Brittany Stewart appear in court on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, at the Burleigh County Courthouse in Bismarck, N.D., during the trial related to the state's ban on gender-affirming medical care for kids. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)
A trial is underway on North Dakota’s ban on gender-affirming care for kids
 
From left, North Dakota Republican Attorney General Drew Wrigley visits with state Supreme Court Justice Daniel Crothers on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, in the balcony of the House of Representatives at the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D., before Gov. Doug Burgum's budget address. The other members of the court, from left, are Justices Lisa Fair McEvers, Douglas Bahr, Chief Justice Jon Jensen and Justice Jerod Tufte. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)
North Dakota’s overturned abortion ban won’t be in effect during appeal, court rules
 
A pedestrian crosses First Avenue as a winter storm sweeps over the intermountain West, plunging temperatures into the single digits and bringing along a light snow in its wake Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Extreme cold forecast for much of US in coming days
 
Former Gov. Doug Burgum, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the the Interior Department as Secretary of the Interior, testifies before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Doug Burgum, Trump’s pick for public lands boss, questions reliability of renewable power
 
Pat and Julie O'Dell point out details of their property tax statement in their home in Bismarck, N.D., on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)
North Dakota’s new governor eyes ‘path to zero’ property tax on people’s homes. Can it be done?
 
Connie Armstrong, mother of North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong, serves punch from the punchbowl that is part of the 40-piece silver serving set purchased and made for the battleship USS North Dakota in 1910s, on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, in Bismarck, N.D. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)
North Dakota opens its legislative session with speeches and drinks from a 115-year-old punchbowl
 
Deputies lead Ian Cramer, center, out of a courtroom at the Mercer County Courthouse in Stanton, N.D., on Monday, Dec. 30, 2024, after his sentencing. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)
Senator’s son sentenced to 28 years for killing a North Dakota deputy during a car chase
 
A highway sign depicting Mount Rushmore and reading "Welcome to South Dakota. Great faces, great places" stands on the North Dakota-South Dakota border near Thunder Hawk, South Dakota, on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)
Becoming a resident of South Dakota is easy. Some say too easy
 
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen gives an update on the response after tornadoes hit the state on Friday, during a press conference at the Douglas County Sheriff's office in Omaha, Neb. on Saturday, April 27, 2024. (Chris Machian/Omaha World-Herald via AP, File)
Nebraska governor’s prognosis is good after falling from a horse
 
Jim Thom clears his driveway of snow with a snowblower on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, in Bismarck, N.D. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)
Snow, ice and strong winds make for dangerous conditions in upper Midwest
 
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