Kent Conrad

North Dakota’s bare landscape isn’t known for its trees, but in the state’s centennial year of 1989, North Dakota provided two trees for Christmas in the nation’s capital.

Jocelyn Burdick was the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate from North Dakota, although it was never her plan. Born in Fargo on this date in 1922, her…

Senator Kent Conrad is donating his official Senate documents to the George Washington University in Washington, DC. As Prairie Public’s Dave Thompson…