WILLISTON, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – One person is dead after an officer-involved shooting in northwestern North Dakota. The Williams County Sheriff’s Office says Monday morning around 1:30 a.m. deputies responded to a domestic disturbance involving a gun west of Williston. When they got to the scene, they encountered a person with a gun. The deputies fired at the person and hit…
NEW YORK MILLS, Minn. (KFGO) – A rural Fergus Falls man is in the Otter Tail County jail after deputies chased the stolen car he was driving near New York Mills on Friday night. Deputies used tire deflation devices and a pursuit intervention technique to end the pursuit. 41-year-old Rene Torres was arrested for vehicle theft, fleeing, and burglary. The…
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – Reptile Gardens near Rapid City, South Dakota just re-opened after a November fire killed nearly 100 animals. Investigators say the fire at the tourist attraction was caused by electrical problems in a detached agricultural shelter. Heavy fire and smoke extended into the ceiling and roof. The roof collapsed and more than 90 tortoises and alligators died. Animal…
Dan Leingang, interim president of Bismarck State College, speaks during the school’s commencement ceremony at the Bismarck Event Center on May 10, 2024. Leingang is one of six semifinalists identified by the college’s presidential search committee that could take on the permanent role. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — Two North Dakotans are semifinalists for the Bismarck…
People watch from a rooftop as a plume of smoke rises after a strike in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran continued for a second day on Sunday after the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threw the future of the Islamic Republic into uncertainty and raised the risk of regional instability. There were explosions in Tehran on…
Leo DartoeFARGO (KFGO) — A Fargo jury has found a man guilty of murdering his childhood friend. Leo Dartoe, 35, shot and killed Sampson Bleh in August 2024 at an apartment in the 2200 block of 12th Ave. S. in Fargo. Bleh was shot in the chest. He died at the hospital. After the shooting, Dartoe fled the state, and…
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A Devils Lake judge has ordered a new trial for a man who has spent more than 30 years in prison for a murder on Spirit Lake Reservation. 65-year-old Werner Kunkel has always maintained his innocence and has been fighting to clear his name for decades. He was convicted in 1995 in the 1986 stabbing…
WASHINGTON — Service members who are about to leave the military may soon have someone to help them prepare to reenter civilian life, if a new federal bill gets enough support from members of congress. If passed, the new bill would require the military to give pre-separation counseling to service members leaving the military. While the military has advised leaving…
BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — Cases of measles in North Dakota nearly doubled this week to 21, including four people who needed to be hospitalized, according to the Department of Health and Human Services measles dashboard. The 10 new measles cases this week were reported in Pembina County, which increased its case total to 19 since early February. One…
A Bismarck State College sign is displayed on the side of a skyway on campus during Welcome Week at the school on Aug. 26, 2024. (Photo by Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — The North Dakota State Board of Higher Education enacted a tenure policy requiring a master’s or other advanced degree for professors to receive tenure….
