President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he plans to name North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to lead the Department of Interior. “We’re going to do things with energy and with land, Interior that is going to be incredible,

Republicans were elected into every statewide office and are set to maintain supermajority in the Legislature, outweighing Democratic seats by 42-5 in the Senate and 83-11 in the House.

North Dakota voters are deciding ballot measures to do away with the property tax, legalize recreational marijuana and to raise the bar for citizens to amend the state constitution.

Republican U.S. Rep. Kelly Armstrong has won the race to be North Dakota’s next governor. The state’s lone congressman has served three terms in the U.S.

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to lead the U.S. Department of Interior, which oversees the management of 500 million acres of public lands across the country, controls 700 million acres of subsurface lands and 1.7 billion acres of the outer continental shelf.

President-elect Donald Trump announced at a gala that he'd selected North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum for Interior secretary as he rounds out his Cabinet.

Donald Trump says he’s nominating North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum to lead the Department of the Interior. The president-elect made the announcement informally, during a gala on Thursday at Mar-a-Lago.

View live results of the North Dakota presidential election. See maps of county-by-county presidential election results in the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

President-elect Donald Trump said he plans to nominate North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, a one-time rival for the Republican presidential nomination, to run the Interior Department and help steer the energy policy he’s pledged will drive up oil and gas drilling.

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum will lead the Department of the Interior in the Trump administration, the president-elect announced.

Governor Doug Burnum had sought the 2024 Republican nomination for president before endorsing Trump. He reportedly was on the vice-presidential short list.