BISMARCK, N.D. – North Dakota’s Republican-controlled Legislature has approved a new legislative map that reflects a continued loss of political clout in rural areas due to population shifts in the past decade. Though the map maintains 47 legislative districts, it creates three new districts in the state’s fastest-growing areas but erases an equal amount in population-lean rural regions. The new…
NORTH DAKOTA & MINNESOTA (KVRR) – With the first snowfall of the year coming, is your car ready? “I always recommend anytime we get into the winter months that everybody get their vehicle in to get their master technician once for them. Make sure they’re safe,” Matt’s Automotive North Moorhead Service Manager Chris Thom Service Manager said. Winter is coming…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – With Veterans Day Approaching Fargo South High School honored those who served our country. Students vote on a vet to honor every year. Maurice Bonemeyer fought in World War Two, was captured by Germans during the Battle of the Bulge and spent five months as a prisoner of war. He received the Bronze Star and a…
WAHPETON, N.D. (KVRR) – A Wahpeton Vietnam veteran is given nine military awards he earned decades after serving in the Navy. Congressman Kelly Armstrong presented Seaman Al Collins the Purple Heart, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal Combat V, Navy Unit Commendation, Meritorious Unit Commendation, National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal – Korea, Vietnam Service Medal One Silver…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) – The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has announced more than $2 million in grants for its electric school bus pilot project. School districts in Fergus Falls, Faribault, St. Paul, Columbia Heights, Morris, and Osseo are receiving the money. The project is the first electric school bus project in the Midwest and one of several programs designed to…
MINNEAPOLIS (Fox News) – Minnesota Vikings offensive lineman Dakota Dozier, who is vaccinated, was hospitalized on Tuesday night after contracting COVID-19, reports say. Head coach Mike Zimmer confirmed to reporters on Wednesday that dozens of players and staff are being tested after being deemed a close contact with a player that was sent to the emergency room with COVID. “One…
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm says COVID-19 hospitalizations have reached their highest level of the year. And she says hospital capacity continues to tighten across the state amid a “truly alarming spike in cases.” The Minnesota Department of Health reported 5,277 new cases and 43 new deaths. As of Wednesday, Minnesota hospitals were caring for 1,159…
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR) – The FBI is seeking the public’s assistance regarding the disappearance and presumed death of Steven Roger Longie. Longie was last seen around the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in late October, 2020. The FBI says there are “investigative reasons to believe that foul play contributed to the disappearance and presumed death of Longie.” They are offering a reward…
BISMARCK, N.D. – The father of a missing Bismarck High School senior is offering a reward for information that helps authorities find his son. Darius Hurdle, of Minneapolis, says the reward of $5,000 to $10,000 would be distributed after 18-year-old Chase Hurdle is found. Chase Hurdle has had amnesia issues and also went missing in July. He couldn’t remember his…
Gov. Doug Burgum, Attorney General Wayne StenehjemBISMARCK, ND (KVRR) – Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said Wednesday that North Dakota has joined a lawsuit that challenges a vaccine mandate for healthcare workers employed by companies that receive Medicare and Medicaid funds. According to the lawsuit, the CMS vaccine mandate “imposes an unprecedented federal vaccine mandate on nearly every full- or part-time employee,…
