WASHINGTON (KVRR) – Senators John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer are recommending that President Donald Trump nominate East Central District Court Judge Nick Chase to serve as U.S. Attorney for North Dakota. Mac Schneider currently serves in the position. Schneider was appointed by former President Biden in 2022, and said recently he expects to be replaced by a Republican after Trump…
Claire Ness, deputy attorney general, speaks during a committee hearing on Jan. 20, 2025. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — Possessing a computer-generated image of child pornography would be punishable as a felony in North Dakota under a bill discussed Monday by state lawmakers. House Bill 1386 adds images created by artificial intelligence to state law prohibiting the possession of…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KVRR) — Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar played a key role in the inauguration. The Democrat, and one time candidate for president, is the Chair of the bipartisan and bicameral Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies for the 60th Presidential Inauguration. In that role, she was right beside President Trump during several events. She voted to convict him of…
President Donald Trump, center, takes part in a signing ceremony in the President’s Room after the 60th Presidential Inauguration, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Surrounding the president are, from left, Senate Majority Leader Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.; Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb.; Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.; Vice President JD Vance;…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — If you’re a renter in North Dakota, a new bill about moving in and moving out might be changing. The Industry, Labor and Business committee heard testimony about the bill offered up by West Fargo Representative Jared Hendrix. The motion for a bill to be introduced was made by a Bismarck native who had garnered support…
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….
