BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — Gov. Doug Burgum has named Tammy Miller to succeed Brent Sanford as lieutenant governor of North Dakota. Sanford plans to return to the private sector and focus on his family and career. He is a certified public accountant and has served as mayor of Watford City, and owned and operated a third-generation auto dealership. He has…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) – North Dakota’s Republican governor is following the lead of other Republican governors and banning the use of TikTok on state-owned devices. Gov. Doug Burgum today signed an executive order banning the social media app from state-owned devices issued by executive branch agencies, citing growing national security concerns. The order specifically prohibits executive branch agencies and their employees…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — Mayor Brandon Bochenski shared some insight on his family’s fight with addiction at the sixth Recovery Reinvented in Grand Forks. “We got to talk about the positives and the hope because I don’t think there’s ever been a time, in human history probably, there’s been this amount of resources and this amount of people there…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR/AP) — Gov. Doug Burgum rejects a plea by North Dakota’s American Indian tribes to give them exclusive rights to host internet gambling and sports betting in the state. But he did endorse the tribes’ appeal to lower the legal gambling age from 21 to 19 and to allow use of credit or debit cards to bet. The…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — Gov. Doug Burgum is making it clear that North Dakota schools will not make it mandatory to get the COVID-19 vaccine to attend school. At the end of the week, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices added the vaccine to the 2023 childhood and adult immunization schedules. The CDC also made it clear that whether…
MERCER CO., N.D. (KVRR/AP/CNN) — Mercer County, North Dakota will be the site of a new facility that processes nickel and other minerals for batteries that power electric vehicles and the electric grid. Minnesota-based Talon Nickel will receive $114 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The company will build a $433 million ore processing and management facility in Mercer County…
WAHPETON, N.D. (KVRR) — 41-year-old Shannon Brandt, who is accused of intentionally running down a teen following a street dance in McHenry, North Dakota, makes his first court appearance. He appeared by Zoom from the Stutsman County Jail. Southeast District Judge Bradley Cruff presided. Brandt’s attorney, Mark Friese, waived the reading of the charges and penalties in the case and…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR/AP) — North Dakota Republican leaders and the state GOP are issuing statements about the death of 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson. Court documents show 41-year-old Shannon Brandt told State Radio that he hit a pedestrian who he claimed was part of a Republican extremist group. Investigators say they have been unable to confirm Brandt’s claims. Brandt is accused of…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KVRR) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection is temporarily expanding operating hours at three ports of entry on the U.S.-Canada border in North Dakota. The hours at Maida, Northgate and Sherwood ports of entry will be expanded by two hours, to 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. That is pending agreement from the Canada Border Services Agency. The move…
State Superintendent Kirsten Baesler, Ivona Todorovic and Governor Doug BurgumBISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — An English Language teacher at Red River High School in Grand Forks is named the 2023 North Dakota Teacher of the Year. A ceremony was held Monday morning to celebrate Ivona Todorovic in Bismarck at the Capitol’s Memorial Hall. She was honored along with three other finalists…
