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Superintendents ready to face challenges of new school year

Despite all of the challenges the school districts are facing, they feel ready to meet the needs of their students.

September 1, 2020

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FARGO, N.D. – Over the next two weeks, 30,000 students will head back to school in-person for the first time since the pandemic began. The school districts of Fargo, West Fargo, and Moorhead, have spent the summer carefully preparing for all of the challenges that lie ahead of them, especially COVID-19. “Every generation has had a challenge, and this is…

NDSU choir moves rehearsals outdoors to keep everyone safe

Students Find New Ways to engage with performance materials.

September 1, 2020

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FARGO, N.D. – NDSU performance arts students are finding ways to work around COVID-19 restrictions. Choir students are hungry to get back into their studies and are taking every opportunity to work on their craft even with pandemic restrictions. In order to keep themselves and others safe the students have opted to do their rehearsals with masks on and outside,…

Combine Operator Jailed For DUI After Flipping Machine Near Berthold

September 1, 2020

TJ Nelson,

WARD CO., N.D. — An unusual story out of northwestern North Dakota. A man is arrested for driving drunk after flipping a combine in a field near Berthold. Authorities say 45-year-old Michael Carr was drunk when the crash happened. He was taken to the Ward County Jail in Minot. Police say the combine landed upside down in the field Monday…

ND Supreme Court To Decide If New Insurance Candidate Makes Ballot

Democrats Replaced Travisia Martin with Fargo insurance agent Jason Anderson

September 1, 2020

TJ Nelson,

BISMARCK, N.D. — North Dakota Democrats have endorsed a new candidate for insurance commissioner. He is Fargo insurance agent Jason Anderson. He was endorsed after the state Supreme Court ruled the party’s initial nominee, Travisia Martin, was ineligible for the ballot. She hasn’t lived in the state long enough to hold the office. Democrats filed a petition on Monday with…

UND Double Major To Virtually Ring NASDAQ Closing Bell Wednesday

His other prizes for winning a business competition include $15,000 in cash and $25,000 in consulting support

September 1, 2020

TJ Nelson,

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — The winner of the Red River Valley Business Plan Competition is going to ring NASDAQ’s closing bell Wednesday afternoon. Pierson Painter will represent UND’s Nistler College of Business & Public Administration. He will ring the bell remotely from North Dakota. A 30-second UND video will also be featured in Times Square in New York City on…

KFGO News exclusive: Amazon to build large distribution center in Fargo

It will create 1,000 jobs.

September 1, 2020

Site Staff,

FARGO (KFGO) – Amazon is coming to Fargo. KFGO News has learned one of the world’s largest on-line retailers plans to build a 1-million square foot, three-story distribution center on approximately 110 acres of farmland north of Hector International Airport. It will create 1,000 jobs. The property is located in the North Fargo Industrial Addition. Annexation and rezoning of the…

North Dakota reaches 12,000 total COVID-19 cases, reports 191 new cases Tuesday

Cass County accounts for 3,546 of the total positive cases and 76 of the total deaths.

September 1, 2020

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CASS COUNTY, N.D.–The North Dakota Department of Health reports 191 new COVID-19 cases and two new deaths on Tuesday. Twenty-seven counties report new cases. Stark County reports the most new cases with 50 and Burleigh County the second most with 30. A man in his 70s from Morton County and a woman in her 80s from Burleigh County died. Both…

Feds want deal with North Dakota over pipeline protest costs

September 1, 2020

KVRR Staff,

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers is recommending that the federal government negotiate a settlement with North Dakota for more than $38 million that the state spent policing protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline. The request comes following a federal judge’s decision last month to deny the federal government’s motion to dismiss North Dakota’s lawsuit seeking…

Lewis and Clark kindergarten teacher prepares classroom for a socially-distant school year

Mona Heggedal will have just 9 kids in her classroom at one time as a result of Fargo Public School's hybrid learning model guidelines.

August 31, 2020

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FARGO, N.D. — Mona Heggedal has been a kindergarten teacher for 34 years, but returning back to school this year is unlike anything she has experienced in her career before. “Just to have only nine students in the class, it is something I have never had,” said Heggedal. That small size is the result of guidelines set by Fargo Public…

Grand Forks pub supports Bochenski’s decision to close bars, restaurants early

Grand Forks bars, liquor stores and restaurants serving alcohol had to close early beginning this past Saturday

August 31, 2020

Site Staff,

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — As UND students return to campus, Grand Forks has seen a dramatic rise in COVID-19 cases among people in their twenties. “We expect our students, upon their return, either to test before they come back to campus or shortly after,” said UND President Dr. Andrew Armacost a couple weeks ago. 15 to 29-year-olds make up 87…