Author: KVRR Staff

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Local News, North Dakota News

Department of Labor orders Soo Line to pay railroad employee $200,000 in whistleblower case

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BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – A federal whistleblower investigation has found a railroad company illegally retaliated against and terminated a claims representative who reported an injury, discussed safety concerns with their supervisor and filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor. The department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigated a complaint filed by an Enderlin-based employee of Soo Line Railroad…

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Agriculture, Local News, North Dakota News, Politics / Elections

Delayed farm bill punted until after election with Congress stuck on how to pay for it

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A tractor works in a farm field near Medina, North Dakota, on May 16, 2024. (Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)(North Dakota Monitor) WASHINGTON — Sweeping legislation that would set food and farm policy for the next five years is in limbo, waiting for lawmakers to decide its fate after the election. The latest deadline for the farm bill passed unceremoniously at…

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Local News, North Dakota News, Politics / Elections

Coachman wants constitutions to guide government, not other way around

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Michael Coachman (Courtesy of the candidate)Michael Achterling (North Dakota Monitor) North Dakota independent gubernatorial candidate Michael Coachman favors a hands-off approach to government and plans to use the state and federal constitutions as guiding principles for policies. “Our plans are already laid out on what the government shouldn’t do and what they should do,” Coachman said. “If it doesn’t support…

Election 2024 Debate
Local News, Minnesota News

Vance and Walz keep it civil in a policy-heavy discussion

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Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Republican vice presidential nominee Ohio U.S. Sen. JD Vance. (AP Photo)WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice presidential nominees JD Vance and Tim Walz have used their time on the debate stage to focus the bulk of their attacks not on one another, but on those at the top of their rival tickets. Republican…

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Top Sports Headlines

Pete Rose, baseball’s banned hits leader, has died at age 83

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NEW YORK (AP/KVRR) – Pete Rose, baseball’s career hits leader and fallen idol who undermined his historic achievements and Hall of Fame dreams by gambling on the game he loved and once embodied, has died. He was 83. Stephanie Wheatley, a spokesperson for Clark County in Nevada, confirmed on behalf of the medical examiner that Rose died Monday. Wheatley said…

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Minnesota News

Man injured when large propane tank catches fire

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ALEXANDRIA, Minn. (KVRR-KFGO) – A truck driver was taken to the hospital in Alexandria when a 1000-gallon propane tank caught fire in a gravel pit. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says 60-year-old Joseph Notch of Freeport was filling two propane tanks for I-94 road construction when the fire broke out. The Alexandria Fire Department put out the fire and cooled…

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