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Spirit Lake Tribe Takes New Steps To Fill Police Officer Positions

Officers had to respond to nearly 200 calls in just one week

April 3, 2025

TJ Nelson,

SPIRIT LAKE, N.D. (KVRR) — Spirit Lake Tribe is taking steps to fill a shortage of police officers on the reservation. Chairwoman Lonna Street says the tribe has established a Memo of Agreement with Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs. They control the police force. It will allow the tribe to recruit officers directly under tribal authority while ensuring…

Democrat Upset Over Scheduling of Burgum’s Hearing To Become Interior Secretary

January 8, 2025

TJ Nelson,

Doug Burgum / Interior Secretary NomineeWASHINGTON, D.C. (KVRR) — Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico is accusing Republicans of a breach of precedent and protocol in scheduling Doug Burgum’s confirmation hearing to become Interior Secretary. The Democrat and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources says the FBI background check isn’t finished and there is no…

Rockne Earles Indicted for Role in Riot at U.S. Capitol

October 23, 2023

KVRR Staff,

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KVRR/KFGO) — A federal grand jury has indicted a former Oriska, North Dakota man who was arrested earlier this year on charges related to the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. 62-year-old Rockne Earles is charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers and civil disorder, both felonies. He also faces six misdemeanor charges. He was first…

North Dakota man charged in New Mexico decapitation killing

October 21, 2021

Jim Monk,

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Federal authorities say a North Dakota man is charged with second-degree murder in the Oct. 10 decapitation killing of another man at the victim’s home on the Navajo Nation in northwestern New Mexico. A criminal complaint says 28-year-old Shilo Aaron Oldrock attacked and decapitated the victim with an ax and burned the victims’ head in a wood…

North Dakota oil production slips to third largest behind New Mexico

September 18, 2021

Site Staff,

NORTH DAKOTA (AP) — North Dakota regulators say the state has officially lost its status as the nation’s second-biggest oil producer to New Mexico. North Dakota produced just over 1 million barrels of oil per day in July, the most recent month for which data is available. The July production marks 5% drop from June. Texas continues to lead the…

New Mexico threatens North Dakota’s oil ranking

June 15, 2021

Jim Monk,

BISMARCK, N.D. – North Dakota has ranked as the nation’s second-biggest oil producer for nine years, but it’s on the verge of losing that status because oil production is soaring in New Mexico. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported Monday that New Mexico produced 1.16 million barrels of oil per day in March, while North Dakota’s daily oil output that…

North Dakota Man Fined $74,000 For Poaching Trophy Mule Deer Buck

surveillance at the site caught Cody Davis four months later when he returned to retrieve the severed head

July 9, 2020

TJ Nelson,

NEW MEXICO — An Arnegard, North Dakota man is ordered to pay $74,000 in restitution for poaching a trophy mule deer buck in northwestern New Mexico. Game and Fish says Cody Davis killed the animal out of season and didn’t have a license. The investigation started in 2015 when game officers found a large headless buck. They put up surveillance…

Brainerd Native Killed In Avalanche While Skiing In New Mexico

The family of 22-year-old Corey Borg-Massanari confirms he has passed away

January 21, 2019

TJ Nelson,

NEW MEXICO — A Brainerd, Minnesota native is one of two men killed by an avalanche in New Mexico’s Taos Ski Valley. The family of 22-year-old Corey Borg-Massanari confirms he has passed away. Corey and 26-year-old Matthew Zonghetti from Denver went for a ski tour Friday afternoon and were on their second run when the avalanche was triggered. Corey had…