Health

Local health professionals express a growing need for the next generation of professionals

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Since 2000, North Dakota has gained more than 100,000 residents and continues to grow. With the demand for health care services rising rapidly. “We’re really expanding opportunities in multiple specialities to develop our own physician pipeline and keep people close to home so that people in the community can get the care they need and deserve…

Additional $20 million in federal rural health grants announced for North Dakota

North Dakota Health and Human Services Interim Commissioner Pat Traynor discusses the Rural Health Transformation Program at the North Dakota Newspaper Association’s annual convention on May 1, 2026. (Photo by Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — North Dakota has announced more than $20 million worth of new grant opportunities under the federal Rural Health Transformation Program —…

North Dakota small business owners lament rising healthcare costs, credit card swipe fees

Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., center, speaks during a small business roundtable next to Rep. Julie Fedorchak, R-N.D., and Don Larson, state director of the National Federation of Independent Business North Dakota, at Balancing Goat Coffee Shop in Mandan on May 4, 2026. (Photo by Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — Small business owners expressed concerns about rising…

Sanford Health Orthopedics and Sports Medicine invites student athletes for sports physicals

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Student-athletes preparing for the 2026-2027 sports season can soon start their preparations. Sanford Health Fargo Orthopedics and Sports Medicine is offering student-athletes the opportunity to schedule and get their sports physical. The physical is meant to ensure the students’ safe participation in sports and includes a physical exam. Students with any questions regarding their health are…

Pet Connection: Meet Waldo

FARGO — It’s the question that hangs every week over each pet who comes through the KVRR studios for Pet Connection Thursday. Sooner or later, during the shoot, someone will ask, “Who on earth would ever be willing to give up such a wonderful animal companion?” And most of the time, the question goes unanswered. In Waldo’s case, we know……

Awareness Walk for Huntington’s Disease

FARGO — There’s an awareness walk coming up this weekend that deals with a disease that steals mobility, memory and so much more from its victims. And chances are, it’ll hit you right at the time your life could be its busiest and most fruitful. It’s Huntington’s Disease, and it’s been described as combination of Alzheimer’s, Parkinsons, and ALS. It…

West Fargo and Essentia expands Save-A-life Boot Camp to include seventh graders

Seventh Graders at Heritage Middle School learn the basics of CPR at Save-A-Life Boot Camp. 4/24/26HORACE, N.D. (KVRR) — Students at Heritage Middle School in Horace had the chance today to learn some skills that could help them save someone’s life. The students were taught how to recognize symptoms of strokes and heart attacks by medical professionals with Essentia Health….

Pet Connection: Meet the Preemies

FARGO — If you’re ever wondering just how much hard work and heartbreak goes into animal rescue, you’ve got the answer in these five tiny, fragile, one-week-old kittens. They were discovered abandoned, no mother or caretaker in sight, in a cardboard box at a gas station, having been born premature and undeveloped. Their odds of survival are far from assured…

Community Gardens program expands to Concordia College

FARGO — It’s still not quite warm enough to start breaking ground on the veggie garden for tomato lovers… but there is something that’s already growing fast this spring. That’s the latest expansion of the nonprofit project, Growing Together Community Gardens. And this year, their latest lot — at up to more than ten locations and counting —  is sprawling…