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Woman Who Walked Away From Transitional Living Center Found In Mahnomen County

Police had believed she may be in the Mahnomen or Ogema area

UPDATE: Authorities from the White Earth Tribal Police Department and the Mahnomen County Sheriff’s Office have located Elizabeth Barr.   **Original Story Below** FARGO, ND — Police in Fargo are looking for a woman who left Centre Inc. in Fargo. Elizabeth Barr left the transitional living center yesterday where she has been serving out a criminal sentence. Police believe she may be…

Drew Wrigley Gets His Old Job Back As U.S. Attorney For North Dakota

It's a role Wrigley served in from 2001 to 2009

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former U.S. Attorney for North Dakota, Drew Wrigley, has his old job back. Senators John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer announcing that the Senate has confirmed Wrigley for the position. President Trump nominated him for U.S. Attorney for North Dakota last August. It’s a role Wrigley served in from 2001 to 2009 before serving as lieutenant governor with Gov….

All Fargo Offices Closed Friday, WF Offices Set To Reopen at 10 AM

Fargo Mayor Tim Mahoney declares an emergency closing all non-emergency city offices on Friday. All City Hall departments, MATBUS, the Ground Transportation Center on NP Avenue in Downtown Fargo, Fargo Cass Public Health and public libraries will be closed. There will be no residential trash and recycling collection and the Fargo Sanitary Landfill and Household Hazardous Waste Facility will also…

I-29 Closed From Fargo to Sioux Falls, SD, I-94 Closed From Jamestown to Fargo

The North Dakota Department of Transportation has closed Interstate 29 from Fargo to the South Dakota border. I-29 is also closed from Brookings, South Dakota to the North Dakota border. Interstate 94 is closed from Fargo to Jamestown. Highway 13 from I-29 to Wahpeton is also shut down. NDDOT says blowing snow is creating near zero visibility and hazardous driving…

ND Gov. Burgum Signs Pipeline Tampering Bill

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum has signed legislation that increases the punishment for people who tamper with pipelines and groups that help them. Burgum announced Wednesday night he signed the bill that more clearly defines that it’s illegal to tamper with “critical infrastructure.” The bill passed both chambers of the GOP-led Legislature by a wide…

LIVE: Pet Connection: Meet Surly

Save your pet from potential suffering by spaying and neutering.

Surly is kind of the cautionary tale of cats whose owners choose not to spay and neuter their pets. The sweet-natured calico came in to Homeward Animal Shelter with a swollen abdomen, which made rescue workers assume she was pregnant. Further examination showed it wasn’t kittens causing the swelling. It was a massive infection of Surly’s uterus, called a pyometra,…

NDSU Students Raise Awareness for Survivors of Sexual Abuse With Kits 4 Kare

Kits 4 Kare is an event to gather donations to make survival kits to give to abuse survivors and to educate students

FARGO, N.D.– NDSU Students are helping sexual assault survivors and trying to prevent sexual abuse on campus. Kits 4 Kare is an event to gather donations to make survival kits to give to abuse survivors and to educate students. People can donate items, learn self–defense and write to survivors. Donations include things like toothbrushes, feminine hygiene products, hats and gloves….

Brutal Weather and Coming Storm Leaves Farmers With Uncertainty

In a region with lots of high and low land, there are more wet areas that usual

LISBON, N.D. — Farmers are feeling the weight of Mother Nature. “We’re not doing too bad now, things are drying up nice, it’s looking a lot better, but when you’re talking another 12 inches of snow, and what that’s going to do, it’s already wet and late to start out with,” Matthew Lyons, a farmer in Lisbon, said. He says…

UND President Kennedy Suggests Board’s Opposition to remote chief-of-staff Was Racially Motivated

GRAND FORKS (KFGO) – Outgoing University of North Dakota President Mark Kennedy’s remarks to a Colorado newspaper suggest that a recent disagreement with the Board of Higher Education over allowing his chief of staff to work from a remote location may have been racially motivated. Under the arrangement, Kennedy suggested that Angelique Foster could work from Texas and receive $114,000 per year salary…

Gov. Burgum Signs Bill Outlawing “Dilation and Evacuation” Abortion Procedure

Doctors performing the procedure could be charged with a felony

BISMARCK, ND — Gov. Doug Burgum has signed a bill outlawing the abortion procedure known as dilation and evacuation. The law makes it a crime for a doctor performing an abortion to use instruments such as clamps, scissors and forceps to remove a fetus from the womb. Doctors performing the procedure could be charged with a felony, punishable by up to five…