North Dakota Secretary of State Michael Howe, center, speaks during a meeting of the State Canvassing Board on June 26, 2024. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) – The person in charge of North Dakota’s elections said he hopes a return to an “all hands on deck” policy by the U.S. Postal Service will prevent the postmarking problem…
FARGO (KFGO) – Fargo police say the FBI is now leading the investigation into a series of bomb threats in the city last week. There were six bomb threats in all. None were found to be credible. The office at Fargo South High School received threats Wednesday and Friday. The call on Friday forced the school to dismiss early for…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFGO) – The former deputy attorney general under late North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem is dead. KFGO News first reported in March 2022 that Troy Seibel would be replaced by Attorney General Drew Wrigley. He was let go after Wrigley discovered that he and Stenehjem’s administrative assistant, Liz Brocker, deleted thousands of emails following Stenehjem’s death in…
LISBON, N.D. (KVRR/NEWSDAKOTA) — A Lisbon man faces terrorizing and assault charges after allegedly threatening to kill his father over a bottle of nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas. Court records show 31-year-old Hunter Mairs had been using marijuana, Adderall, and nitrous oxide and causing disturbances in the family home for weeks. On Thursday night, his father took away…
NEW SALEM, N.D. (KVRR: UPDATE 4:15PM) — A Dickinson man is dead after a shootout with Highway Patrol troopers and a county deputy on I-94 near New Salem in Morton County. A trooper tried to stop 43-year-old Nicholas Kirby in Bismarck around 12:45 a.m. but he sped off onto I-94 heading west. Another trooper and Morton County deputies joined the…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) –Burning curtains in a basement bedroom are being blamed for a twin home fire in south Fargo Sunday afternoon. Multiple fire crews and police responded to the multi-family around 4:30 p.m. The house is located at 1738 50th Street South in Fargo, a few blocks west of Home Depot. Fargo Fire Battalion Chief Joe Mangin says the…
HIBBING, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) – One man is dead and seven people injured after an explosion at a campfire, north of Hibbing. Law enforcement and first responders were called to French Township, just before 8:30 p.m. Friday night. They found a group of family and friends gathered to enjoy the holiday weekend. While the group was preparing the campfire, an unknown flammable…
MOOHREAD, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) – A boy jumps from a second story window to escape the smoke and flames as his house burns in north Moorhead. Moorhead, Dilworth and Fargo firefighters responded to the Country Heritage Development this afternoon around 1:45. Heavy black smoke could be seen for miles. The boy jumped before crews could arrive on the scene. Initial reports…
courtesy, KFGOSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — An ostrich brought traffic to a halt in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on Tuesday as motorists tried to lure and nudge the towering bird off a multilane thoroughfare. Drivers called Sioux Falls police just before noon to report the roughly 7-foot-tall bird in the middle of a busy four-lane road. As police and animal…
OTTER TAIL CO., Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — A picture of a man in a fishing boat on West Lost Lake north of Underwood, Minnesota leads to burglary charges against a Fargo man. 40-year-old Ryan Bohn is accused of breaking into a cabin in May and stealing a pizza oven, toolset, and mechanical decoys. He has been charged with burglary in Otter…
