Author: KVRR Staff

Judge signs order officially repealing North Dakota’s abortion ban

The Red River Women’s Clinic moved from Fargo to this location in Moorhead, Minnesota. (Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)(North Dakota Monitor) North Dakota’s abortion ban was officially repealed Thursday following a judgment entered by South Central District Court Judge Bruce Romanick. “The law as currently drafted takes away a woman’s fundamental rights to liberty and her fundamental right to pursue and…

Minnesota Democrats report record fundraising numbers with over a month left until election

The Minnesota Capitol Building. Courtesy of Minnesota House Public Information Services.(Minnesota Reformer) Minnesota House Democrats are steaming into the final 40 days of the election campaign with a $2.5 million cash advantage over House Republicans, according to campaign finance reports released Wednesday. Labor unions and wealthy individuals with a long history of generous giving to Democrats combined to give the…

Ethics Commission to seek legislation to bolster transparency, investigative authority

The Ethics Commission meets in the Sakakawea Room of the North Dakota Capitol in Bismarck on June 26, 2024. (Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor)(North Dakota Monitor) The North Dakota Ethics Commission is planning to propose legislation during next year’s session that would overhaul how it investigates potential ethics violations. Staff say the changes would bring the panel more in line with…

State or local control of gun sales hinges on Fargo case

BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) – An attorney for the city of Fargo argued Wednesday that a state law infringes on the city’s right to regulate gun stores and threatens the authority of local governments across the state. Attorney Peter Zuger made the arguments for the city to the North Dakota Supreme Court as it appeals a Cass County District…

Minnesota among states with highest concentration of large livestock operations

A typical pen format for swine in many Iowa animal feeding operations(Minnesota Reformer) In some southern Minnesota counties, hogs outnumber humans by a factor of 40 to 1. Minnesota is the second-largest hog producing state in the nation, generating more than $3.5 billion in sales in 2022. Most hog production takes place in the southern region of the state, along the border…

Judge says Minnesota GOP House candidate lied on search warrant as Hubbard County sheriff’s deputy

Republican candidate for Minnesota House District 2A and former Hubbard County Sheriff’s Deputy Bidal Duran. Courtesy photo.(Minnesota Reformer) A Republican candidate for a state House seat who is running on his experience in law enforcement was excoriated by a state judge last fall for “intentionally or recklessly mischaracterizing the truth” on a pair of affidavits in a felony drug case….

Vision Zero reports lane departure cause of more than half of North Dakota traffic fatalities

BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – Lane departure-related crashes accounted for more than half of the vehicle fatalities in North Dakota in 2023 and the traffic safety initiative, Vision Zero, urges drivers to stay within their lane to help reduce the number of crashes and fatalities on North Dakota roads. Single-vehicle lane departure crashes are especially common in rural areas and a…

Some Florida ballots are reissued after misspelling Tim Walz’s name

(CNN) – The Palm Beach County, Florida Supervisor of Elections said Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic nominee for vice president, was misspelled as “Tom” Walz in some ballots that were emailed to overseas voters last Friday. “The error was isolated to 257 electronic ballots,” the Florida county’s elections supervisor Wendy Sartory Link, a Democrat, said in a statement to…

New member appointed to Ethics Commission

Murray Sagsveen, left, an attorney with previous positions at multiple state agencies and North Dakota University System, interviews with Gov. Doug Burgum, Senate Majority Leader David Hogue and Senate Minority Leader Kathy Hogan for an position on the Ethics Commission on Sept. 23, 2024. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)(North Dakota Monitor) A Bismarck attorney with extensive government experience will be the…

Murder Charges Filed After Weekend Shooting in Fargo

FARGO (KFGO) – A Fargo man has been charged with murder in the shooting death of another Fargo man outside a Fargo apartment building early Saturday morning. 24-year-old Tyreik Taylor-Roberts told police that he and 25-year-old Jalab Moses got into an argument. He said Moses tried to grab his gun and he shot Moses twice in the chest. Taylor-Roberts claimed…