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…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — He’s a familiar face to patrons at south Fargo’s Luna restaurant. And he’s back home in the kitchen after a year cooking for folks in -98 degrees, with what sometimes got up to -150 wind chill. It’s the story of a chef who’s life’s ambition turned out to be really cool. On a frozen day…
FARGO — You probably wouldn’t recognize it under the mask and frost, but he’s a familiar face on the cooking line at the popular southside Fargo Luna restaurant. And he’s back home in the kitchen for the first time in a year ever since making his childhood dream of seeing Antarctica for himself come true. South Pole Sous Chef and…
FARGO (KFGO) – Transportation Security Administration officers intercepted eight guns at Hector International Airport in Fargo last year. That’s five more than in 2023. The TSA says 19 guns were stopped from making it through security at North Dakota airports in 2024, up from 12 the year before. Besides the eight firearms at Hector, TSA officers intercepted six at Bismarck…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A brief pursuit in West Fargo early this morning lands 42-year-old David Jacobsen of Moorhead behind bars. West Fargo Police saw a man passed out behind the wheel of a car parked at Circle K on 13th Avenue East just after 1 a.m. When an officer tried to make contact with Jacobsen, he drove off….
(KVRR) — KVRR Local News at 6 will not be seen Monday evening due to FOX College Hoops Extra and Women’s College Basketball: Texas vs. Maryland. Get news updates at www.kvrr.com or on our social media pages. Join us for KVRR Local News at 9 for coverage of President Trump’s Inauguration and the sentence commutation for Leonard Peltier, one of…
WASHINGTON (AP) — With just moments left before he leaves office, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. Peltier was denied parole as recently as July and wasn’t eligible for parole again until 2026. He was serving life in prison for the deaths of the agents…
Prairie Rose Seminole works to digitize records of the Bismarck Indian School on Jan. 3, 2025, at the National Archives in Kansas City, Mo. (Photo provided by Dennis J. Neumann)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — Researchers are digitizing historical records from a Native American boarding school in Bismarck, aiming to bring information closer to the communities affected by its existence….
Students from Bottineau Public Schools’ Rockhounds club listen to testimony on a bill to make Knife River Flint North Dakota’s state rock during a meeting of the House Political Subdivisions Committee on Jan. 16, 2025. (Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — North Dakota could be getting its first-ever state rock: a cola-colored stone called Knife River Flint….
North Dakota Forest Service firefighters Hunter Noor, Jon Cooper and Logan Ripple provide aid in Craig, Colo., July 4, 2018. A bill under consideration by lawmakers would enhance the retirement benefits of state firefighters. (Provided by North Dakota Forest Service)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — State firefighters may soon be able to retire 10 years earlier as the North Dakota…
