FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo Parks Sports Center is ready for the public. We showed you last week that Phase 2 of the plan is complete with the addition of pickleball courts, turf fields, 4 basketball courts, and two new sheets of ice. The new courts and ice are now open to the public and are showing it off with…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo’s Solid Waste Service is sharing its progress reclaiming the city’s East Landfill. The 160 acres lies on the east side of 45th Street North and the north side of Seventh Avenue North. The project started in 2016 and entails digging out the original landfill and bringing it up to current environmental standards. This includes adding…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden used his farewell address to the nation Wednesday to deliver stark warnings of an “oligarchy” of the ultra-wealthy taking root in the country and of a “tech-industrial complex” that is infringing on Americans’ rights and the future of democracy. Speaking from the Oval Office as he prepares to hand over power Monday to President-elect Donald Trump, Biden…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — North Dakota lawmakers are debating whether to move forward with a bill to have businesses close on Sunday. The decision was 10 to 4 to not move forward with the bill. Representatives from The Chamber of Fargo Moorhead West Fargo and other areas believed it needed to be amended. The Sunday closing law or Blue Laws…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — The bill, presented by the North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, would allow children from newborns to 18 months of age to reside with their mothers in a separate housing unit the DOC considers their ‘apartments.’ “Women are often the main caregivers for their children as most incarcerated women are parents to children under the…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A second suspect is arrested for his role in the murder of Rahsaan Wilson last month in south Fargo. Police say 24-year-old Patrick Martin Jr. of Chicago was arrested on Tuesday for murder and conspiracy to commit robbery. Martin was already in Cass County Jail on unrelated charges. The first suspect, 30-year-old Steven Burrell of Fargo,…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon and House Democrats have asked the state’s highest court to intervene in a partisan power struggle that has roiled the start of the 2025 legislative session that extended into a second day Wednesday. Simon, a Democrat, petitioned the Minnesota Supreme Court late Tuesday to declare that he legally remains the presiding…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — Robert Icanberry, the suspect in a 2023 Moorhead murder case, has been found guilty of second-degree murder. A jury handed down its verdict Tuesday against the 59-year-old Icanberry for the death of 60-year-old Terry Klevgaard. Police found Klevgaard dead of “multiple sharp force injuries” in a Moorhead apartment in the 1800 block of 1st Avenue North…
The Burleigh County Courthouse is pictured on Thayer Avenue in Bismarck on March 13, 2024. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — A judge is limiting the scope of a lawsuit challenging North Dakota’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors after concluding three families don’t have standing to participate as plaintiffs. Luis Casas, a North Dakota pediatric endocrinologist,…
Rep. Craig Headland, R-Montpelier, chair of the House Finance and Taxation Committee talks with his vice char, Rep. Jared Hagert, R-Emerado, before a public hearing on property tax reform on Jan. 14, 2024. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — Local government leaders told lawmakers Tuesday they’re ready to work on property tax reform, but expressed concerns about…
