WYNDMERE, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – A farm worker in rural Wyndmere suffered non-life-threatening injuries Thursday when his leg got caught in a bin sweeper. The Richland County Sheriff’s Office says its department, Wyndmere Fire Department, and Wyndmere Ambulance responded to a farm where the worker had been cleaning the bin. Wyndmere Ambulance took the worker to a Fargo hospital. His condition…
Twyla Baker, president of Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College, shares how her school is navigating funding uncertainty under President Donald Trump’s administration during a panel at the Tribal Leaders Summit on Sept. 3, 2025. (Photo by Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — Presidents of North Dakota’s tribal colleges say they’re preparing for lean years under President Donald Trump’s…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Trump administration is launching Medicaid spending probes in Minnesota and at least five other Democratic-led states that provide comprehensive health coverage to poor and disabled immigrants living in the U.S. without permanent legal status. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is scouring payments covering health care for immigrants without legal status to ensure there…
BISMARCK, N.D. — The North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality says they have responded to a reported chemical spill in the Cannonball River, near New England, on Wednesday, Sept. 3. New England is about 25 miles south of Dickinson. According to NDDEQ, the spill happened due to a farm implement accident which released an unknown amount of diesel as well…
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (KVRR) — A Moorhead man has been arrested for allegedly poisoning a St. Cloud man in June. Police arrested 35-year-old Stuart Hanmer for homicide in connection with the death of 33-year-old Cody Ernst. Doctors discovered thallium, a highly toxic heavy metal, in his system at levels so high, it had to be ingested. Police believe Hanmer intentionally…
FARGO, N.D (KVRR) — Another Powerball drawing has come and gone with no jackpot winner. But there are a few big winners in Minnesota and North Dakota. A ticket sold at Speedway in Inver Grove Heights is worth $1 million. One sold at Don’s Car Wash on 52nd Avenue South in Fargo is worth $100,000. That player purchased the Power…
Avian flu has recently been confirmed at commercial turkey farms in North Dakota and South Dakota. (Scott Bauer/Agriculture Research Service, USDA)FARGO (North Dakota Monitor) — Avian flu has hit turkey farms in North Dakota and South Dakota, the first cases in commercial flocks in the United States since early July. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection…
David George (Sherburne County Jail)FARGO (KVRR/KFGO) – Attorneys for a former West Fargo Elementary School principal who pleaded guilty to federal child sex abuse charges will ask the judge to place him in a prison in North Carolina. In May, David George pleaded guilty to taking a 10-year-old boy to South Dakota, molesting him, taking images of the abuse, and…
FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – The City Commission approved the removal of a dangerous apartment building in south Fargo. Inspections Director Shawn Ouradnik says the designation was made after a July 7 fire that did significant damage to a basement apartment unit and smoke damage throughout the two story apartment. He says there are a number of other issues with the 5-unit…
UPDATE: A domestic disturbance and attempted burglary suspect who set off a shelter-in-place overnight in Moorhead has been caught. In the noon hour, police were called to the 2800 block of Village Green Drive after a man was seen entering their neighbor’s vehicle. Officers arrived and found 21-year-old Krayshawn Tyler concealed in the trunk. He was taken into custody on…
