North Dakota News

Coyotes renounce draft rights for UND’s Mitchell Miller

Courtesy: University of North Dakota AthleticsGLENDALE, Ariz. – The Arizona Coyotes announce the team has renounced the draft rights to University of North Dakota Freshman Mitchell Miller. The Coyotes’ President and CEO Xavier Gutierrez says in a statement in part, “We were aware a bullying incident took place in 2016. We have learned more about the entire matter and the impact…

North Dakota reports more than 1,200 new COVID-19 cases and 11 deaths Thursday

BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) – The North Dakota Department of Health reports 1,222 new COVID-19 cases and 11 new deaths on Thursday. Forty-nine counties report new cases. Cass County reports the most new cases with 278 and Burleigh County the second most with 169. Nine men and two women from 11 counties died. North Dakota’s COVID-19 numbers: 41,130 positive cases, 184…

LIVE: STRONG Challenge

Stop being sick and tired with a new service from the YWCA of Cass-Clay.

The holidays are hot on our heels, and if that makes you feel like running away, maybe that’s a good thing. After all, it would constitute some of the only running a lot of us have done lately. The months and months of the pandemic are stretching out both before and ahead of us in a way that’s making a…

LIVE: Real Men Wear Pink

He's in the pink to keep you in it too.

Realtor Kyle Olson is decking himself out for deliveries in head- to-toe, dapper pink style. In exchange for a one hundred dollar donation to his Real Men Wear Pink campaign, he will deliver a box of donuts to your business wearing his pink suit. Olson joined the fight against breast cancer when his cousin was diagnosed at 19 years old….

FBI warns ransomware assault threatens US healthcare system

FBI warns ransomware assault threatens US healthcare system

BOSTON (AP) – Federal agencies warned that cybercriminals are unleashing a wave of data-scrambling extortion attempts against the U.S. healthcare system designed to lock up hospital information systems, which could hurt patient care just as nationwide cases of COVID-19 are spiking. In a joint alert Wednesday, the FBI and two federal agencies warned that they had “credible information of an…

North Dakota students invited to apply for Superintendent’s Cabinet

Students interested in applying to be on the Student Cabinet must apply by 5 p.m. on Nov. 23.

BISMARCK, N.D.–State School Superintendent Kirsten Baesler is inviting students in grades three through 12 to apply for the Superintendent’s Student Cabinet. The Cabinet was created by Baesler in 2015 as a way for students to share their opinions and make a difference in the way schools operate all across the state. Students on the Cabinet serve for 18 months and…

City of Fargo to announce details of Amazon distribution center

FARGO – (KVRR)  An announcement is planned Friday in Fargo about “Project Force,” the code name for the Amazon distribution center under construction in north Fargo. As KFGO News first reported in early September, the multi-million dollar warehouse, known as a “fulfillment center” is expected to employ up to one thousand people. Blueprints show a massive multi-level structure of over…

Fargo Public Schools receives two awards from ND Library Association

The Fargo Public Schools Development Foundation received the School Library Benefactor of the Year and Eagles Elementary School Library Media Specialist Jennifer Hess received the Youth Excellence Program of the Year.

FARGO, N.D. — Two awards were given to  Fargo Public Schools during the North Dakota Library Association Awards. The Fargo Public Schools Development Foundation received the School Library Benefactor of the Year, which is given to a person or group who makes significant contributions to a school library. Eagles Elementary School Library Media Specialist Jennifer Hess received the Youth Excellence Program…

Patients at Sanford Children’s Hospital enjoy a pet parade to celebrate Halloween

About 25 people took part in the parade.

FARGO, N.D. – The F-M therapy dogs, Red River Corgis and the F-M Kennel Club team up to host a pet parade outside of Sanford Children’s hospital. The organizations wanted to cheer up patients who will have to miss Halloween this year. They brought their dogs dressed up in costumes and walked from the east side of the building to…

Salvation Army will have Red Kettle bell ringers out this year

The Salvation Army is taking safety precautions to protect their bell ringers

FARGO, N.D.- The Salvation Army still have Red Kettle Bell Ringers this holiday season, but there are some new rules they will be following. Bell ringers will no longer wear fabric aprons, bells and kettles will be sanitized and bell ringers will wear Salvation Army masks. The Salvation Army will have a QR code reader on the bells if there…