WASHINGTON, D.C. (FOX NEWS) — Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance are expecting their fourth child. The couple says the baby is a boy. In a social media post, the Vances wrote, “Usha and the baby are doing well, and we are all looking forward to welcoming him in late July”. The White House retweeted the announcement,…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — A North Dakota man who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. is also being remembered. The family of Byron Knutson waited until the week leading up to the MLK holiday to announce his death. The Democrat and former North Dakota Insurance and Labor Commissioner died last month in Bismarck at 96. Knutson grew up in Benson…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — West Fargo City Commission is getting a look at a plan to reconstruct a section of highly traveled 13th Avenue South that will cost $30 million. City engineers plan to submit a Surface Transportation Block Grant application for partial funding. The plan is to reconstruct the roadway and replace the storm sewer system between Sheyenne…
MINOT, N.D. (KVRR) — The Democrat who lost to Julie Fedorchak for North Dakota’s lone U.S. House seat in 2024 is running against her again. In his campaign release, Trygve Hammer said, “Right now we have no voice in Congress”. Hammer is a retired Marine, former educator and oil field roughneck and current political columnist. He says the issues they…
Sekou Sirleaf, chair of the Fargo Human Rights Commission, leads a working session Jan. 15, 2026, at Fargo City Hall. Sirleaf said recent decisions by Fargo leaders don’t reflect the city’s diversity. (Photo by W. Scott Olsen/For the North Dakota Monitor)FARGO — (North Dakota Monitor) North Dakota’s largest city is not sponsoring a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration this…
Sen. Jerry Klein, R-Fessenden, listens to a presentation during a Jan. 16, 2026, State Investment Board meeting. Pictured at left is State Treasurer Thomas Beadle and at right, Rep. Glenn Bosch, R-Bismarck. (Photo by Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — The State Investment Board on Friday approved about $1.3 million in performance bonuses to 12 Retirement and…
People gather near the post office during a protest, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active duty soldiers to be ready in case of a possible deployment to Minnesota, where federal authorities have been conducting a massive immigration enforcement operation, two defense officials said Sunday. The officials, who spoke…
Gov. Tim Walz/01-08-26WASHINGTON, D.C. (KVRR/CNN) – Sources are reporting that the Department of Justice is investigating Minnesota governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. It’s reportedly over what the DOJ is calling possible obstruction of federal law enforcement. The alleged probe comes after Walz and Frey spoke out against the recent actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in…
Employees restock groceries at a Target store in Minnesota. Photo by Max Nesterak/Minnesota Reformer.MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (Minnesota Reformer) — More than 100 Twin Cities clergy gathered at the skyway entrance to Target’s downtown Minneapolis headquarters Thursday to sing, pray and demand the retailer take a stronger stand against federal law enforcement activity in the metro and prevent agents from using its…
A bus stop is shown on Park Avenue and 38th Street, the spot where a neighborÕs continuous video feed caught an ICE agent taking a man into an unmarked car days before Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer)MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (Minnesota Reformer) — A man shelters alone under the heaters of a south Minneapolis bus stop on a…
