FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – North Dakota State University Police sent a campus-wide alert after a report of a sexual assault in a residence hall. The victim told police the assault happened during the early morning hours on Tuesday, March 3. NDSU Police say the suspect and the reporting individual had previously exchanged messages. “While circumstances around sexual assaults can vary, it…
The Bank of North Dakota is awarding employee performance bonuses as a way to improve retention. (Photo by Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — State officials have approved new staff performance bonuses to improve retention at the Bank of North Dakota, with the first installment totaling about $772,000. The North Dakota Industrial Commission, which oversees…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — From nine proposals down to just four, the Convention Center Committee has been focused on which site will be the best to develop. “One of the primary things we want to see if they changed any detail in the plan. And then we also want to see what the construction budget is, what we can get…
Fairchild Equipment donates Walk-In Freezer for Rural Food Access Through Great Plains Food Bank and North Dakota Rural Electric Cooperatives Foundation.FARGO — The Great Plains Food Bank is thanking a local machinery company for the donation of a walk-in freezer worth around seventy-five-thousand dollars. The freezer was originally located in the new factory for Fairchild Equipment, but it has been…
UPDATE: The victim has been identified as Gary Boyer, 80, from Carrington. CARRINGTON, N.D. (KVRR) — A Carrington man is dead after a crash in Foster County. North Dakota Highway Patrol says it happened on Highway 200 about six miles east of Carrington Monday around 4:30 p.m. Authorities say a semi was headed east when a truck was going…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A Cando, North Dakota woman is accused of breaking into an apartment in Grand Forks and assaulting a woman. Grand Forks Police arrested Marsha Counts on Saturday night after the victim reported that Counts and several others came into the apartment when she was sleeping. Police say there is video evidence showing Counts hit the…
House Minority Leader Zac Ista, D-Grand Forks, speaks on the House floor in December 2024. Ista recently asked the Ethics Commission to analyze whether it would be an ethics violation for him to attend a study tour paid for by the government of Israel. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — North Dakota House Minority Leader Zac Ista announces that…
MALDIVES (KVRR-KFGO) – A bucket list vacation for a Fargo couple has turned into a travel nightmare. Jim and Jodi Spaeth are stranded on an island in Maldives. The couple left Fargo on Feb. 19 for a 36-hour trip to Maldives in southeast Asia. They’re currently stranded with no way out because of the war in Iran. “We feel very fortunate…
Lawmakers on the Joint Appropriations Committee study legislation during a January special session convened to budget the first two years of the state’s Rural Health Transformation Program funding. (Photo by Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — The federal government has approved most of North Dakota’s nearly $200 million plan implementing the first year of a massive rural…
The University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Grand Forks. UND staff, including two obstetrician-gynecologists, were commissioned by the state to create a new abortion laws training that is mandatory for doctors who perform abortions in North Dakota. (Photo courtesy of University of North Dakota)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — A new training commissioned by the North…
