Leonard PeltierFARGO (KVRR) – Amnesty International is asking President Joe Biden to pardon Leonard Peltier, the man convicted of killing two FBI agents during a shooting on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Peltier is serving two life sentences at a federal penitentiary in Florida. His 1977 trial was held in Fargo. “Indigenous elder and activist Leonard Peltier has been…
PIERRE, S.D. (KVRR) – The University of North Dakota’s Dean of the College of Engineering and Mines is the new president of South Dakota Mines. Dr. Brian Tande will assume his new role at the university in Rapid City on Jan. 9. “Dr. Tande’s depth of experience in academic leadership and his dedication to fostering innovation and student achievement made…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans have elected South Dakota Sen. John Thune as the next Senate majority leader, completing a momentous shift in their leadership that elevates a top deputy of Sen. Mitch McConnell into a key position as President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House. Thune, who is 63 and in his fourth Senate term, has promised to work…
FILE – President Donald Trump appears with South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Sept. 7, 2018, in Sioux Falls, S.D. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)WASHINGTON (CNN) – President-elect Donald Trump has selected South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as his next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, according to two people familiar with the selection. Noem will be tapped to take over…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Board chairman emeritus of SCHEELS, Steve D. Scheel, will be getting the Rough Rider award in just a couple of weeks. It is North Dakota’s highest honor for its citizens and will be presented by Gov. Doug Burgum. The award is named for our 26th President Theodore Roosevelt. The ceremony will take place at 8 a.m….
BISMARCK — He’s one of the most celebrated photographers in North Dakota. And he’s out with his third book. Wet plate photographer Shane Balkowitsch is signing copies of his third volume of portraits of native American tribal members this weekend. The book features hundreds of images of his subjects taken in a Civil-War era technique. It’s one of the oldest…
Russell Eagle Bear, with the Rosebud Sioux Reservation Tribal Council, talks to U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland during a meeting about Native American boarding schools at Sinte Gleska University in Mission, S.D., on Oct. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to formally apologize on Friday for the country’s role in the Indian…
The CDC is reporting a severe E. coli outbreak in 10 states linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders. States include Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin. Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota are not included in the outbreak at this time. Nearly 50 people have gotten sick with the majority of the cases in Colorado where…
Starbucks Coffee, Sanford USD Medical Center. courtesy, SiouxFalls.BusinessFARGO (KVRR) – Sanford Health is exploring the possibility of opening a Starbucks Coffee inside Sanford Medical Center in Fargo. A Sanford spokesman confirms discussions are under way, but they are still in the early stages. “This is still very early in the process and we are in exploratory discussion,” according to a…
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Former Sen. Tim Johnson, a centrist who was the last Democrat to hold statewide office in South Dakota and who was adept at securing federal funding for projects back home during his nearly three decades in Washington, has died. He was 77. Johnson, who was first elected to Congress in 1986 and retired from the…
