FARGO (KVRR) – An attorney for a former state senator who pleaded guilty to traveling to a foreign country to have commercial sex with minor boys is asking a federal judge to impose a sentence that does not require going to prison. Ray Holmberg of Grand Forks will be sentenced March 26 in U.S. District Court in Fargo. Holmberg’s attorney,…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – The University of North Dakota Police Department has identified the owner of a pickup involved in a hit-and-run. UND Police were looking for the owner after the pickup struck an elementary-age child near 39th Street and 6th Avenue N. in Grand Forks. The Department says the investigation is still active and ongoing and anyone who witnessed the…
Colby Braun, center, director of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, listens March 24, 2025, to testimony on a bill related to criminal sentences. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — North Dakota’s attorney general is backing a bill that will increase the time offenders spend behind bars because he says the state criminal justice system…
Faye Seidler, a suicide prevention advocate, testifies March 24, 2025, against a bill that would require state entities to only refer to individuals by their sex assigned at birth in official documentation. (Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — Schools don’t see all-gender bathrooms as a problem, West Fargo Public Schools Business Manager Levi Bachmeier told lawmakers Monday…
A sticker opposing a possible 3-cent increase to North Dakota’s gas tax is displayed on a Bismarck gas pump on March 24, 2025. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — North Dakota lawmakers are weighing the first increase to the gas tax in 20 years and an increased electric vehicle fee, with the new tax revenue earmarked for…
FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – No one was hurt, but residents of an apartment unit were displaced after a kitchen fire in south Fargo Monday night. The Fargo Fire Department says crews responded to the apartment complex at 2551 Villa Drive S at 9:48 p.m. where the fire started in a second-floor unit. Firefighters were able to put out the fire before…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — A North Dakota senate committee hosted a second reading on requiring mandatory learning of the Holocaust in public schools. Schools in North Dakota currently leave it up to a teacher’s discretion whether the Holocaust will be taught. The bill requires the superintendent of public instruction to submit an annual report to the governor and legislative management…
WAHPETON, N.D. (KVRR) — The Flickertail Solar Project hearing brought in several dozen people, including landowners and others who would be affected by the project. “We’re still asking for the site to be designated as it is with the condition that there will not any components of the solar facility within 500 feet of a residence within that boundary,” said…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — The Fargo man who pleaded guilty earlier this month in a fatal hit and run is sentenced to four years in prison. 23-year-old Alex Cruz hit and killed 36-year-old Robyn Krause of Fargo around 6:30 a.m. on December 23. Krause was crossing the street near the 52nd Avenue South Walmart at the time. Cruz pleaded guilty…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — An East Grand Forks man has waived his preliminary hearing and entered a not guilty plea in the shooting death of his father in 2020. 32-year-old Vincent Villarreal is charged with murder for the shooting death of his father. 55-year-old Jeffrey Shulzitski was found dead on December 5, 2020 at Budget Inn Express in Grand…
