FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — According to a study from WalletHub, Minnesota and North Dakota voters are some of the most powerful for the midterm elections. North Dakota is in the top five for voting power in the senate and gubernatorial elections. WalletHub created a voting power index to calculate the number of elected officials in the federal government by totaling the…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — Mayor Brandon Bochenski shared some insight on his family’s fight with addiction at the sixth Recovery Reinvented in Grand Forks. “We got to talk about the positives and the hope because I don’t think there’s ever been a time, in human history probably, there’s been this amount of resources and this amount of people there…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A teenage motorcycle driver is fighting for his life after a crash in south Fargo on Wednesday afternoon. Highway Patrol says 18-year-old Jake Krumm of West Fargo hit an SUV that turned in front of him on 40th Avenue and 66th Street South. Krumm was thrown from the bike and landed on the road. He was…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFGO) — North Dakota’s Supreme Court will hear arguments later this month on the state’s abortion ban after the attorney general appealed a judge’s ruling that kept it from taking effect. The high court on Wednesday scheduled oral arguments for Nov. 29 on South Central District Judge Bruce Romanick’s opinion that there’s a “substantial probability” a constitutional challenge…
EDDY CO., N.D. (KVRR) — Charges are filed in a hunting dispute in Eddy County that went viral on social media. North Dakota Game Warden James Myhre was called on the morning of October 21 after landowner Jeffrey Erman accused a group of hunters of being on his land. He confronted the hunters, including Jacob Sweere who took the video,…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Many people have cast their ballots in North Dakota and Minnesota for early voting. Cass County officials say just under 5,000 people have voted across its five locations since Monday. Clay County officials say 3,400 ballots have been cast since early voting began in September. “It’s been pretty steady. We’re quite happy with how the results…
(AP) — Donors associated with companies holding medical marijuana licenses are providing most of the funding for ballot measures that would legalize recreational marijuana in several states. An analysis of campaign finance data by The Associated Press shows that marijuana legalization campaigns have raised about $23 million in North Dakota, South Dakota, Arkansas, Maryland and Missouri. Entities associated with the…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR/AP) — Gov. Doug Burgum rejects a plea by North Dakota’s American Indian tribes to give them exclusive rights to host internet gambling and sports betting in the state. But he did endorse the tribes’ appeal to lower the legal gambling age from 21 to 19 and to allow use of credit or debit cards to bet. The…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo Police arrest 3 men who are connected to the murder of 32-year-old Phillip Dewey Bergquist from Sunday. George Ortiz, 38, of Fargo is charged with a Class AA felony of Intentional Murder. Joseph Poitra, 29, is charged with Accomplice to Murder. He has no permanent address. David Reyneros, 25, of Fargo is charged with Tampering…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — UND leaders announce they have found additional Indigenous remains in the School of Medicine & Health Sciences, along with possible human skeletal remains used in the teaching of anatomy. It follows the announcement in late August that 250 boxes of Indigenous remains and artifacts were discovered on campus earlier in March. Ever since they were…
