DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — The State Patrol says it conducted more than 1,000 traffic stops and made nine DWI arrests during the three days of WE Fest south of Detroit Lakes. 511 citations or warnings were issued for speeding and there 119 seatbelt violation citations or warnings. 14 minors were cited for underage drinking. There were 21 citations for…
Attendees listen to a presentation by podcaster and author Kate Bowler organized by Humanities North Dakota in Fargo in 2024. (Photo provided by Humanities North Dakota)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — Humanities North Dakota says its financial future looks more stable after a federal judge indicated the executive branch was wrong to cancel two years of nationwide humanities grants. The…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — Fargo Police have made an arrest in a downtown assault that happened August 3rd. Tabias Walker is one of two people wanted for an assault in the 300 block of Broadway. He was arrested in Moorhead Sunday night and is in the Clay County Jail. The second suspect has not been found. The victim remains hospitalized…
WHEATON, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) – Farmers are getting credit for helping save part of the Triple J Seed Farms Elevator in Wheaton. Traverse County Sheriff Trevor Wright says the city worked most of the day on Thursday to repair a water main break and the water tower was only maintaining pressure to preserve the tower and system. When the blaze broke…
James Yantzer and Valorie Cartwright, both Bismarck, look at signs showing the Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline route ahead of a hearing on April 22, 2024. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)AMES, IOWA (North Dakota Monitor) — Summit Carbon Solutions has a new CEO, Joe Griffin, who authored letters this week to signed and unsigned landowners along the carbon pipeline project…
Kristin Casper, center, general counsel for Greenpeace International, and other representatives for Greenpeace speak to the media March 19, 2025, outside the Morton County Courthouse. (Amy Dalrymple/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — Greenpeace says a North Dakota judge should not halt a free speech lawsuit it filed against the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline in the Netherlands….
Vance BoelterMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The man charged with killing the top Democrat in the Minnesota House and her husband, and wounding a state senator and his wife, pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court. Vance Boelter, 58, of Green Isle, Minnesota, was indicted July 15 on six counts of murder, stalking and firearms violations. The murder charges could carry the…
FARGO (KVRR/KFGO) – An investigation is underway into the cause of a fire early Thursday morning in south Fargo. The fire was reported shortly before 1:30 a.m. in the parking lot behind a row of businesses in the 1300 block of 34th Street, near 13th Avenue South. Fire Department Battalion Chief Brad Besette says the furniture stacked outside the building,…
FARGO — Cass County Vector Control has scheduled aerial mosquito spraying in the cities of Fargo, Moorhead, and West Fargo. The spraying is scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 7 after 7:30 p.m. Vector control says the community is currently at the highest risk level for the West Nile virus, with confirmed human infections and hospitalizations. They also urge residents to take…
Corn Harvest: A farmer harvests corn near Mapleton, ND at the end of the 2024 growing season. Photo Sabrina Halvorson.BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota News Cooperative) — For farmers across North Dakota, alarm bells are ringing and could get louder following tariffs imposed on Canada and the potential for increased tariffs on China in the coming weeks. On July 31, the…
