BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) – Improving energy, agriculture and cybersecurity are big topics behind North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum’s State of the State Address at Fargo Theatre. The governor is concerned about 50,000 state sponsored cyberattacks from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea in the last two years. He says the state’s IT department is doing well to combat them. Burgum…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – A North Dakota State University fraternity and sorority are partnering up for their annual Freeze-A-Thon. They’re standing outside for 120 hours attempting to raise $30,000 for charity. “We’ll be out here 24/7 Monday through Friday. All of us have to do six hours we’re taking shifts two of us at a time,” Jordan Amerg of Alpha…
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR) – After weeks of speculation, the Minnesota Vikings on Wednesday officially introduced Kevin O’Connell as the team’s 10th head coach. O’Connell comes to Minnesota from Los Angeles, where he was the offensive coordinator for the L.A. Rams, who defeated the Cincinnati Bengals in Superbowl LVI on Sunday Owner/President Mark Wilf said he is “ecstatic” and said O’Connell is…
2022 Minnesota Congressional DistrictsST. PAUL, Minn. – A Minnesota panel of five judges has released newly drawn congressional and legislative district maps. Minnesota’s 7th District, which nearly covers the state’s entire western border, would no longer include the Northwest Angle, Lake of the Woods, and the White Earth and Red Lake Reservations. Urban population growth resulted in more state legislative…
UPDATE: Police say Alexis Kline has been found safely. JAMESTOWN, N.D. (KVRR) – Jamestown Police ask for your help in finding a missing and endangered 17-year-old girl. Authorities say Alexis Kline was last seen at 8:00 Tuesday morning in Jamestown. The department did not give a specific location in a press release. Kline is 5’5″ tall, weighs 13o pounds…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) – City Council members in Grand Forks issue a first draft of hate crime ordinances similar to Fargo’s which passed last June. Grand Forks City Council is reviewing proposed hate crime ordinances related to assault, harassment, criminal mischief and terrorizing. Council Member Katie Dachtler and Grand Forks Police Officer Brian Samson drafted the first four ordinances…
U.S. Rep. Michelle Fischbach (R) MN’s 7th Congressional DistrictLITCHFIELD, Minn. (KVRR) — Rep. Michelle Fischbach is running for a second term in Minnesota’s 7th District. The Republican was first elected in 2020 defeating longtime Democratic Rep. Collin Peterson. Democrats Mark Lindquist and Reed Olson and Libertarian Travis Johnson are also running. Fischbach previously served as Lieutenant Governor and was the…
KYIV (KVRR) – A published report says the President of Ukraine is planning to fire Minister of Agrarian Policy Roman Leshchenko, the man Ukrainian authorities claim was the target of an assassination plot involving Ashley, North Dakota farmer Kurt Groszhans. Groszhans was arrested in November. He’s accused of being involved in a conspiracy to kill Leshchenko, a former business partner…
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR) — A White Earth man is sentenced to 10 years in prison for a violent domestic assault. According to court documents, 31-year-old Nicholas Durant attacked the victim in their home in April 2020 by hitting her in the chest, head and stomach. Last October, Durant pleaded guilty to one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury. This…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A criminal complain is providing more details about a man charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault-domestic violence in Fargo. The complaint says 27-year-old Tyler Mollner stabbed his wife while she was sleeping in the passenger side of their van Saturday. She jumped out of the moving van on 42nd Street South and was found by two…
