Dion Schilling speaks during a committee hearing on homelessness on Jan. 21, 2025. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — Advocates for low-income housing and people seeking to reduce homelessness lined up to testify Tuesday in favor of a bill that allocates $211 million to address North Dakota’s housing crisis. Senate Bill 2030 would provide: $200 million to the…
Rep. Lori VanWinkle, R-Minot, speaks in favor of a bill to legalize conversion therapy at a House Human Services Committee meeting on Jan. 21, 2025. (Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — A panel of lawmakers considered two bills Tuesday that could have sweeping impacts on LGBTQ rights in the state: one requiring North Dakota to recognize only…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is directing its federal prosecutors to investigate any state or local officials who stand in the way of beefed-up enforcement of immigration laws under the Trump administration, according to a memo to the entire workforce obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday. Written by Emil Bove, the acting deputy attorney general, the memo also…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — Fargo Police Officer Brandon Rittenour has resigned, just weeks after being charged with two misdemeanors: DUI actual physical control and DUI refusal. His resignation was effective immediately January 14. In late December, Rittenour was arrested after allegedly crashing into three parked vehicles and a dumpster. He had been placed on paid administrative leave. In 2015, Rittenour…
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…
Frank Lenzmeier / October 2020WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Services will be held Friday for former West Fargo City Commissioner Frank Lenzmeier. He died last week at the age of 85. We caught up with Lenzmeier back in 2020 during the pandemic when he was serving as president of the West Fargo Area Community Program. The program was holding a…
BISMARCK, N.D. — A bill in the North Dakota legislature would require public schools to hold the Pledge of Allegiance each morning. Currently, the decision to hold a morning pledge is up to individual school boards. HB 1222 would take the decision from school boards and make it a requirement of all public schools. It would also protect schools, faculty,…
Discovery Middle School sent students early on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. Students were sent home due to a malfunction of the school’s heat pump.FARGO — Students at Discovery Middle School were sent home early due to a lack of heat in some of the school’s classrooms. In a release, the school said it was due to a malfunction in the…
