Opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline demonstrate in Bismarck in August 2016. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — A behemoth defamation lawsuit brought by the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline against Greenpeace began its trial in a Mandan courtroom on Monday. Energy Transfer, a Texas-based oil and gas company, accuses Greenpeace of using underhanded…
Rep. Bill Tveit, R-Hazen, speaks during a Jan. 27, 2025, committee hearing. On Feb. 24, 2025, Tveit advocated for a resolution urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — The North Dakota House of Representatives passed a resolution Monday proclaiming the interpretation of marriage as between one man and one…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR)– Activists gathered at Veterans Memorial Bridge to show their support for Ukraine and to protest the United States apparent change in policy. The U.S. split with its European allies by refusing to blame Russia for its invasion of Ukraine in votes on three U.N. resolutions seeking to end the war which started three years ago today. These…
LUBANGO, ANGOLA (KFGO) — The wife of a Detroit Lakes missionary who was killed in Angola, Africa in October has been charged as a co-author in her husband’s murder. Jackie Shroyer was arrested October 29, 2024, four days after her husband, Beau Shroyer, was killed. The Angolan Criminal Investigation Service says it’s believed Jackie was having an affair with a security…
FARGO, ND – JAN. 22, 2025: Students eating lunch at Carl Ben Eielson Middle School in Fargo on January 22, 2025. Free school meal advocates in North Dakota are calling on the state legislature to prioritize permanent funding to pay for meals.BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — A bill to provide free meals to North Dakota K-12 students failed in…
BELVEDERE, Calif. (AP) — Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who leaped onto the back of President John F. Kennedy’s limousine after the president was shot, then was forced to retire early because he remained haunted by memories of the assassination, has died. He was 93. Hill died Friday at his home in Belvedere, California, according to his publisher, Gallery…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — U.S. Parole Commission has turned down the latest request for early release from Scott Faul, one of the two men sentenced to life in federal prison for the murders of two US Marshals near Medina, North Dakota in 1983. “We believed that there is a reasonable probability that he will continue to commit crime upon release…
FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – Bachman-Turner Overdrive, The Marshall Tucker Band, and Jefferson Starship will play in Fargo this summer. The Roll On Down The Highway 2025 Tour will come to SCHEELS Arena July 20. The tour, which kicks off July 18 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, follows Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s Back In Overdrive Tour 2025 in Canada. Randy Bachman revived the group last…
Voters participate in the primary election on June 11, 2024, at the Bismarck Event Center. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — Legislators, citizens and outside proponents for term limits last week debated the legitimacy of North Dakota’s term limits law and whether the Legislature can force another statewide vote on the issue. The debate came…
WASHINGTON (KVRR-KFGO) – Minnesota U.S. Sen. Tina Smith traded barbs with Elon Musk on social media over the weekend in response to an order for all federal workers to report what they got done last week. Musk, who serves as the department’s chief, posted the order on X, adding that it will be considered a resignation if the workers don’t…
