Rep. Eric James Murphy, R-Grand Forks, speaks during a meeting of the interim Education Committee on Sept. 24, 2024. Murphy plans to bring a bill during the 2025 session that would preserve some abortion access in North Dakota. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — North Dakota law requires that physicians must give a woman a chance to contact a…
FARGO — We’re on a real roll with the snow-loving, fluffy, northern breeds here on Pet Connection, and Storm the husky couldn’t be a more perfect example of a breed that loves our winter weather. He was found as a stray wandering the streets of Casselton before rescue volunteer Crystal Aakre took him in to her kennel there on behalf…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo City Commissioners agreed to find a new location for the Downtown Engagement Center. Mayor Tim Mahoney has been working with the governor and the State Department of Human Services to secure $5 million from the state and $2.5 million from downtown business partners. The city would also provide $2.5 million. “We’ve come up with two…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A local Fargo company has been awarded another contract by the U.S. Navy to build battery systems for its UAS fleet. Packet Digital had an initial contract with the Navy in December of 2022 worth $8.5 million. The company designed and developed lithium-ion smart battery packs as part of its previous contract. With this new contract,…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — North Dakota lawmakers are looking at a bill to alter the wording of the state’s current eligibility to stay in a transitional facility. The bill would focus on only having individuals who have either completed eighty-five percent of their sentence, have been commuted, or have committed a non-violent crime to stay in the facility. North Dakota…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — The bill to allow young kids to live with their moms in prison has failed to pass in the Senate. A number of lawmakers believed the bill did not provide enough concrete data and how much it would cost. In its current state, Heart River Correctional Center in Mandan has no room for moms and their…
FARGO — The American Heart Association is asking state lawmakers this session to put some big changes in place for schools and students. At the top of their wish list for 2025 is making healthy school lunches available to all students, free of charge. The session’s already seen lawmakers introduce two bills that would provide free universal school lunches, and…
SAINT PAUL, Minn. (KVRR) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced that he and the attorneys general of 20 states along with the City of San Francisco have sued to block President Donald Trump’s executive order that purports to end birthright citizenship. Birthright citizenship is guaranteed under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Section 1401 of the Immigration…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — If you’re a renter in North Dakota, a new bill about moving in and moving out might be changing. The Industry, Labor and Business committee heard testimony about the bill offered up by West Fargo Representative Jared Hendrix. The motion for a bill to be introduced was made by a Bismarck native who had garnered support…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — “I’m going to start crying again.” As word was just starting to get around about their brother’s upcoming release from prison, Sheila Peltier was on the phone with her sister in Fargo. “Never been so happy in my whole life you know because my brothers, my big brothers, coming home,” said, Betty Ann Peltier Solano. Leonard…
