FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – Fifteen Fargo School Board candidates share their visions for the district if they earn a seat. Five seats are up for election for a four year term. The group includes President Rebecca Knutson and Members Brian Nelson, Robin Nelson and David Paulson. Board Member Jennifer Benson is running for a spot on the Fargo City Commission….
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Campaign finance reports show Democratic Gov. Tim Walz has $4.1 million in the bank for his reelection campaign. Dr. Scott Jensen and Sen. Paul Gazelka are the money leaders among candidates seeking the Republican endorsement. Jensen, a former state senator who’s running as a COVID-19 skeptic, ended the first quarter with over $774,000 in cash…
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP/KVRR) — North Dakota Democrats lack candidates for 15 state House seats and three seats in the state Senate. Secretary of state filings show Republicans were unable to recruit candidates for a House seat and Senate seat in the state’s biggest city of Fargo. Late Monday was the deadline for candidates to file with the state secretary of…
WASHINGTON (CNN) – The Department of Interior announced Friday it planned to resume onshore oil and gas lease sales on federal land, with a higher royalty rate for companies to pay to the federal government. The Bureau of Land Management will issue sale notices on Monday for upcoming oil and gas projects. The Biden administration had previously planned to hold the…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – Two days after the deadline to run for Fargo mayor, five of the seven candidates running for the job share their priorities for the city. For an hour-and-a-half at Sanctuary Events Center, three men and two women debated why they’re the best person to run Fargo for the next four years. Republican State Representative Shannon Roers-Jones…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Cass County Sheriff Jesse Jahner has an opponent in his re-election bid and it’s someone from within the sheriff’s office. Cass County Deputy Matthew King of Arthur filed his paperwork to run for sheriff just before the filing deadline on Monday. King has been with the office since 2011. Jahner was first elected sheriff in 2018….
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo voters will have 15 city commission and 7 candidates for mayor to pick from in June. The filing deadline was late Monday afternoon. Michael Borgie is the latest person to get into the mayoral race and just under the wire. Mayor Tim Mahoney is running for another term. Other challengers include Shannon Roers Jones, Hukun…
WASHINGTON (KVRR) – A Fargo woman has gotten a lot of praise in Washington, DC. A member of Senator John Hoeven’s staff took action while seeing a rabid fox on Capitol Hill on Monday that bit six people including Congressman Ami Bera of California. “At the last second I turned around and hit it with my trusty, rusty backpack here,…
Ketanji Brown JacksonWASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate has confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, shattering a historic barrier by securing her place as the first Black female justice and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan endorsement for his effort to diversify the court. Jackson was confirmed 53-47 with three Republican votes. Democratic Minnesota Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina…
BISMARC K, N.D. (KVRR) — Sen. John Hoeven claims the GOP Republican nomination by a narrow margin over State Representative Rick Becker at the state convention in Bismarck. Hoeven got 1,224 votes to Becker’s 1,037. More than 2,300 delegates were present, making it the largest GOP convention in state history. Prairie Public Broadcasting’s News Director Dave Thompson says Hoeven…
