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…
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…
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…
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,…
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….
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…
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…
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…
BISMARCK, ND — Governor Doug Burgum signs a bill to allow North Dakotans to contribute to the Veterans Postwar Trust Fund while doing their taxes. You’ll find a box starting on next year’s state income tax form to make a contribution. The fund assists qualifying veterans and their eligible dependents with unmet medical needs, including dentures, eyeglasses and hearing aids. The…
FARGO, ND — The 30th annual Swing-A-Thon last week to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Hospital was a huge success. Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity partnered with the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority and raised just over $20,300. They had a porch swing set up at the corner of 12th Avenue and University Drive North near NDSU and accepted donations. The fundraiser…
