FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo City Commissioners are delaying any action on making the mayor full-time or adding two commissioners, until next month. City staff presented findings of research into what steps would need to be taken and the impact on the budget. Commissioners can vote to make the mayor’s position full-time. Right now the mayor’s position is only part-time…
BARNES COUNTY, N.D. (KVRR) — A 44-yearo-old Mandan man is dead after driving the wrong way down I-94 and crashing head-on into another vehicle. North Dakota Highway Patrol says the other driver, a 74-year-old man from Bismarck, has serious nonlife-threatening injuries. He was taken to a hospital in Valley City before being moved to Sanford in Fargo. The crash happened…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A former Fargo businessman is sentenced in U.S. District Court for a large-scale cocaine distribution operation. 52-year-old Barrett Prody was given nearly 16 years in federal prison for continuing criminal enterprise, money laundering and obstruction of justice. Court documents show the former owner of JT Cigarro and O’Leary’s Pub laundered hundreds of thousands of dollars in…
CASS COUNTY, N.D. (KVRR) — The Cass County Highway Department has started its work on a list of projects from a five-year project plan. “It’ll be a busy year, we have a lot of road and bridge projects coming. We have a pretty big grading project out by Tower City in between Tower City and Buffalo on County Road 10…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A trial is canceled for a teen charged with terrorizing and having sex with two underage girls. 19-year-old Carter Hammer of Fargo changed his pleas to guilty to eight counts of terrorizing with a dangerous weapon for an incident last summer when he was waving a gun around during an argument among a group of car…
FARGO — Interest is up nationwide from first-time home gardeners this spring, and that’s got spots at the Growing Together Community Gardens filling up fast. Three of their ten garden spots around the metro are already full, says founder Jack Wood. They’ve got sixty new members this year and registration for spring isn’t even started yet. The program has more…
FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – The Highway Patrol has released the names of the people involved in a south Fargo crash between a motorcycle and car Friday night, and Clay County Sheriff Mark Empting confirmed the motorcyclist is an employee of his department. Avery Quiner, 20 of Moorhead, suffered serious injuries when his motorcycle crashed into a car at the intersection of…
BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — North Dakota legislators have been wrestling with a pesticide bill backed by agricultural groups that would make it harder for people to win cancer liability lawsuits against the farm chemical industry. House Bill 1318 would shield the maker of Roundup and other farm chemical manufacturers from lawsuits from people who say they were not adequately…
BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — Revised textbooks on the five Native American tribes that share land with North Dakota will be ready in time for next school year. For about three decades, the books went without updates due to a lack of funding, said Lucy Fredericks, director of Indian and multicultural education for the North Dakota Department of Public…
Exterior of the Fargo DMV location, operated by the North Dakota Department of Transportation.FARGO, N.D. – You may be surprised to know that 66% of North Dakotans already have a Real ID – because right now, the Department of Transportation is definitely feeling the effects of intensified demand for appointments. “For the last month or so, our offices have been getting…
