WASHINGTON – The Food and Drug Administration has paved the way for children ages 5 to 11 to get Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. The agency authorized the kid-size doses on Friday. They are just a third of the amount given to teens and adults. But there’s one more regulatory hurdle. Next week, advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
BILLINGS, Mont. – The Biden administration said Friday that industry regulators for the first time will begin analyzing greenhouse gas emissions from federal oil and gas leases on a national scale, as they prepare to hold lease sales in numerous Western states next year. The announcement from the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management came as officials released a report…
T. Denny SanfordPIERRE, S.D. – Search warrants will be unsealed in an investigation into billionaire banker-turned philanthropist T. Denny Sanford for possible possession of child pornography, the South Dakota Supreme Court ruled. The unanimous ruling, dated Wednesday and announced Thursday, upheld a lower court ruling that said state law prohibits courts from sealing search warrants and the corresponding lists of…
FARGO (KVRR) – An attorney who represents a Bismarck-based photography service that abruptly closed says couples will eventually be able to obtain their wedding photos free of charge. “We are pleased to announce the arrangement will allow couples to see online and download their photographs at NO COST for one year,” according to a statement from Fargo attorney Tim O’Keeffe….
(Albany Farms)BELLE FOURCHE, S.D. – A California company plans to build one of the largest ramen producing facilities in the country in South Dakota. Albany Farms CEO Bill Saller says the complex in Belle Fourche will include a flour mill, production factories and packaging areas that would produce more than 100 million packages of ramen each year and eventually employ…
WASHINGTON (AP) – A panel of U.S. health advisers on Tuesday endorsed kid-size doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, moving the U.S. closer to beginning vaccinations in children ages 5 to 11. A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted unanimously with one abstention that the vaccine’s benefits in preventing COVID-19 in that age group outweigh any potential risks — including…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) – The North Dakota Attorney General’s office has subpoenaed a Bismarck photography firm that suddenly closed, leaving customers with no way to get their money back. Parrell Grossman, the director of the Consumer Protection & Antitrust Division, says investigators are seeking relevant documents from Glasser Images and owner Jack Glasser. When Glasser Images closed in early October,…
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court is not immediately blocking the Texas law that bans most abortions, but has agreed to hear arguments in the case in early November. The justices said Friday they will decide whether the federal government has the right to sue over the law. The court’s action leaves in place for the time being a law…
Tom DaschleWASHINGTON (KVRR/WNAX) – A former longtime member of Congress and U.S. Senator from South Dakota says he’s more worried about the future of the United States now than anytime during his life. “We are closer to seeing the demise of our democratic republic than we’ve ever been in my lifetime” according to former Democratic U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle. “I…
FARGO (KVRR) – The Centers for Disease Control says a salmonella outbreak linked to onions from Mexico has affected 37 states including the Dakotas and Minnesota. The CDC’s website says more than 650 people were sickened nationwide. At least 23 people have been sickened in Minnesota, 4 in North Dakota and 8 in South Dakota. The illnesses are linked to…
