Author: KVRR Staff

Ethics candidates to face questions on agency’s role in North Dakota government

Senate Majority Leader David Hogue, left, talks to Gov. Kelly Armstrong on May 3, 2025, after lawmakers adjourned. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — Officials tasked with selecting the new members of the North Dakota Ethics Commission said they plan on asking candidates what they think the commission’s role in government should be — a…

Fedorchak praises individual meetings, decries town halls as ‘political theater’

Congresswoman-elect Julie Fedorchak speaks during a farewell event in Memorial Hall at the Capitol in Bismarck on Dec. 19, 2024. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) – U.S. House Rep. Julie Fedorchak, R-N.D., said she plans to continue holding one-on-one meetings with North Dakotans going forward, but poured cold water on the possibility of a public town hall….

Fargo Fire Department responds to fuel in Rose Creek Coulee

FARGO (KVRR/KFGO) – The Fargo Fire Department stopped fuel from reaching the Red River Sunday afternoon. A spokesman for the department says a person out for a walk near South University Drive and 40th Avenue reported smelling fuel coming from Rose Creek Coulee. Firefighters could also smell the fuel. They were able to stop the fuel before it reached the…

North Dakota ethics attorney calls out AG’s Office; lawmakers call for civility

Pat Monson BISMARCK (North Dakota Monitor) — A career attorney who assisted in an Ethics Commission investigation told lawmakers that she thinks the Attorney General’s Office is pressuring the commission’s staff to resign. “I believe that what our attorney general is attempting to do is to drive them out,” Pat Monson, who recently retired after 46 years as a trial…

Police seek help locating missing 17 year old

Ruweyda Yusuf, 17.MOORHEAD — The Moorhead Police Department is asking the public’s help in locating 17-year-old Ruweyda Yusuf. Ruweyda left her home in June and has not returned. She was reported missing Aug. 14, and it is believed that she may be in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Ruweyda is described as being 5’4″ tall and weighing 150lbs., with black hair…

1 dead in semi crash on I-94 near Valley City

VALLEY CITY, N.D. (KVRR) — The North Dakota Highway Patrol says the driver of a semi-truck has died after driving off Interstate-94, driving through a slough, into a cornfield. According to a release by the highway patrol, the call came in at around 4:40 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 14. The semi was headed east on I-94 near mile marker 276 when…

Community engagement, English classes seen as helping North Dakota retain foreign-born workers

Buba Kanagi, right, global talent coordinator for the North Dakota Global Talent Office, speaks during the Global Talent Summit at Bismarck State College on Aug. 14, 2025, next to panelists Holly Triska-Dally, left, state refugee coordinator, Derrick Gross, center-left, executive director of Communities Acting Together for Change and Hope, and Jasmine Tosseth-Smith, center, co-director of Bismarck Global Neighbors. (Michael Achterling/North…

Lawmakers attempt to clear up unanswered questions over attorney general building lease

Rep. Emily O’Brien, vice chair of the Legislative Audit and Fiscal Review Committee, questions staff from the Attorney General’s Office about how it handled finances related to a controversial renovation and lease of a south Bismarck building. (Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — Financial discrepancies related to an Attorney General’s Office building project have been resolved, staff…