Kristin Casper, center, general counsel for Greenpeace International, and other representatives for Greenpeace speak to the media March 19, 2025, outside the Morton County Courthouse. (Amy Dalrymple/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — Greenpeace says a North Dakota judge should not halt a free speech lawsuit it filed against the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline in the Netherlands….
Vance BoelterMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The man charged with killing the top Democrat in the Minnesota House and her husband, and wounding a state senator and his wife, pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court. Vance Boelter, 58, of Green Isle, Minnesota, was indicted July 15 on six counts of murder, stalking and firearms violations. The murder charges could carry the…
FARGO (KVRR/KFGO) – An investigation is underway into the cause of a fire early Thursday morning in south Fargo. The fire was reported shortly before 1:30 a.m. in the parking lot behind a row of businesses in the 1300 block of 34th Street, near 13th Avenue South. Fire Department Battalion Chief Brad Besette says the furniture stacked outside the building,…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – Families and students in need flocked to the Fargodome this afternoon to pick up vital supplies for the coming school year. It’s the distribution days for United Way of Cass-Clay’s annual backpack drive. Police set up cones and directed traffic to ferry hundreds of cars into the Fargodome parking lot. The foundation packed 6500 backpacks this…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — Researchers and a pair of graduate students at the University of North Dakota are currently working with a Grand Forks company to shed a little Moonlight on plants in space. SafetySpect and the team at UND were awarded $150,000 by NASA to research for the next six months. The project, titled Moonlight, is working to…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — While concerns over downtown safety continue to be a topic of discussion for many, Folkways Executive Director Joe Burgum and the Downtown Community Partnership’s Rocky Schneider say they believe downtown is still a safe place to be. “We don’t have safety concerns, and we continue to see great crowds from the public coming out. And I…
FARGO — Cass County Vector Control has scheduled aerial mosquito spraying in the cities of Fargo, Moorhead, and West Fargo. The spraying is scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 7 after 7:30 p.m. Vector control says the community is currently at the highest risk level for the West Nile virus, with confirmed human infections and hospitalizations. They also urge residents to take…
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (KVRR) –The leader of the Feeding Our Future scheme is sentenced to 28 years in prison. Abdiaziz Farah, 36, also gets three years of supervised release and is ordered to pay nearly $48,000 in restitution. Farah played a leading role in the Feeding Our Future case, the largest Covid-19 fraud scheme in the U.S. According to documents, Farah…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – More downtown crime news and more police news conferences, as the FPD and the Cass County Sheriff’s Office informed the public on August 6 about a violent assault that took place shortly after this weekend’s shootings. In the early morning hours of August 3rd, the Fargo Police Department were occupied with the crime scene down in…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — Moorhead Police will conduct targeted traffic enforcement following concerns from the community. Police Chief Chris Helmick says, “As the City of Moorhead awaits the results of the Minnesota State Patrol’s investigation into last week’s tragic accident involving 9-year-old Adam Amin, and as the Engineering Department evaluates safety needs along the 40th Avenue corridor, the Moorhead Police…
