Collin Newberry, operations manager, at the Northern Plains UAS Test Site, prepares a commercial drone for launching during test procedures on the Vantis system. (Photo by Kacy Meinecke, courtesy of Northern Plains UAS Test Site)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota News Cooperative) — A freshly approved $11 million legislative appropriation to integrate North Dakota’s unmanned aerial system into Federal Aviation Administration airspace…
BELCOURT, N.D. (AP) – More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier remains defiant. He maintains his innocence in the deaths of two FBI agents in 1975 and sees his newfound freedom — the result of a commutation from former President Joe Biden — as the beginning of…
Opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline demonstrate outside of the North Dakota Capitol in August 2016. A trial brought by pipeline developer Energy Transfer against Greenpeace is underway in Mandan. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — A coalition of media organizations, including the North Dakota Monitor, petitioned the state Supreme Court Thursday seeking expanded access…
University of North Dakota President Andy Armacost, left, and North Dakota State University President David Cook. (Photos provided by North Dakota University System)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — The North Dakota University System gave four college presidents raises Thursday, in part because of the University of North Dakota’s rise to top-tier status for research institutions. The State Board of Higher…
FARGO (KVRR) – The Fargo School Board has voted unanimously to offer the position of superintendent of schools to Dr. Cory Steiner. Steiner has accepted the position pending the negotiation of a written contract. Steiner is currently the Superintendent of Northern -Cass Public Schools. Steiner will succeed Dr. Rupak Gandhi, who resigned effective June 30, 2025. Gandhi has served in…
FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – Multiple crews and agencies responded to a fiery crash involving two semis on Interstate 29 in Fargo Friday morning. The crash happened around 2:30 a.m. in the northbound lanes under the 19th Avenue N. overpass. The Highway Patrol says one semi was merging onto the interstate after being stopped on the shoulder when it was rear-ended by…
(FARGO) – A longtime federal drug prosecutor from Fargo says he’s decided to accept an early buyout and retire from the Justice Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Myers has been a North Dakota BCI agent and a prosecutor at the state and federal levels for nearly 28 years. Myers has prosecuted thousands of people, including cases involving an international fentanyl…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — West Fargo is one of the fastest-growing cities in North Dakota, having added an estimated 15,000 people since 20-10. But while its expansion may seem boundless . . . experts say it’s been running out of space as of late. “There’s only so much land, actually, to grow in West Fargo,” explained Dan Farnsworth, a…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — MSUM is celebrating Black History Month by honoring the achievements of an educator who has changed lives in the Moorhead area for 60 years. Dr. Yvonne Condell and her husband James put down roots in Moorhead in 1965. Condell taught biology at MSUM for 30 years, while her husband became the first licensed psychologist in the…
ST. PAUL (KVRR/KFGO) — Making Minnesota schools safer is the idea behind the Shield Act. The bill is sponsored by Republican Rep. Elliott Engen of White Bear Township. He says it would provide funding for schools to set up security plans using technology like bullet-proof windows and doors, lockdown systems, and direct communication with law enforcement. Engen wants the grants…
