FARGO (KVRR) – An extraordinary number of patients are stretching resources to the limit at local emergency rooms. “We are at — and often beyond — capacity every single day” according to Essentia Health spokesman Louis St. George. “This is due to a combination of COVID-19 patients and non-COVID patients. Unfortunately, throughout this pandemic people have delayed seeking care and…
PINE RIDGE, S.D. – Middle schooler Rarity Cournoyer stood at the heart of the Red Cloud Indian School campus and chanted a prayer song firmly and solemnly in the Lakota language — in a place where past generations of students were punished for speaking their mother tongue. Her classmates stood around her at a prayer circle designed with archetypes of…
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – The organizers of a fundraiser that featured teachers on their hands and knees grabbing for dollar bills at a junior hockey league game in South Dakota are apologizing after the event was criticized as demeaning. The “Dash For Cash” Saturday night at the Sioux Falls Stampede arena was a competition in which 10 local teachers were…
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – A South Dakota state senator has defied the wishes of his counterpart in the House and released the names of House lawmakers who had earlier called for a special legislative session to consider impeaching Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg. Republican Sen. Lee Schoenbeck presides over the Senate as its pro tempore. He received the names of the…
CROOKSTON, Minn. (KVRR) – In a few months, a special committee is expected to recommend what will happen to a controversial, but historic collection of murals at the University of Minnesota-Crookston. The committee, comprised of campus, community and tribal members will determine the future of the John Martin Socha Murals, which have been on display in the Kiehle Auditorium since…
Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage Tuesday, the company said, disrupting access to many popular sites. The company provides cloud computing services to many governments, universities and companies, including The Associated Press. Amazon said in a post an hour after the outage began that it had identified the root cause and was “actively working towards recovery.” The issue primarily…
David Russell (Fox News)HONOLULU – U.S. Navy Seaman 1st Class David Russell sought refuge below deck on the USS Oklahoma when Japanese bombs began falling on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. But a split-second decision changed his mind, and likely saved his life. “I thought, ‘What am I doing down here?’ I was trained to be an anti-aircraft loader,”…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) – The owner of a Bismarck photography service that abruptly closed in October, leaving customers with no way to get a refund, says his actions were not malicious. Jack Glasser issued a statement on social media Friday that says his actions were “the result of underestimating just how difficult a situation I put myself in over the…
OMAHA, Neb. – A new monthly survey of business leaders in nine Midwest and Plains states shows the region’s economy remains healthy, and overall confidence in the economy over the next six months has improved. But about half of supply managers surveyed expect supply chain disruptions to get worse for the first six months of 2022. Firms reported that transportation…
(Fox News)WASHINGTON – Members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority are suggesting they may make sweeping changes to limit abortion rights in the United States. The high court heard arguments Wednesday in which the justices are being asked to overrule the court’s historic 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion and its 1992 ruling in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which…
