VALLEY CITY, N.D. (KVRR) — An incoming high school freshman is preparing for the national bowling tournament in one of the biggest tests in her short career. 14-year-old Maddy Anderson of Valley City, following her family footsteps, has been bowling since she was 5-years-old. She won the North Dakota Pepsi Tournament with a high score of 268. Anderson qualified for…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) – North Dakota is set to receive its first payment in a $45 million settlement with opioid distributors to resolve claims they helped fuel the opioid crisis. The settlements are with McKesson Corporation, Cardinal Health, Johnson and Johnson and Janssen Pharmaceuticals. The money will be sent over 18 years and likely will go to the state’s Department…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – One person was taken to the hospital after a stabbing in South Fargo. Police responded to the 1000 block of Page Drive around 6:15 Wednesday night. Authorities say the suspect and victim know each other and have been interviewed by police. The department did not say if anyone has been detained or arrested. Categories: Local News,…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Bike the U.S. for MS is a nationwide fundraiser raising money for those who struggle with Multiple Sclerosis while doubling as a marathon bike ride. The Northern Tier began their journey in May in Ben Harbor, Maine and their goal is to keep pedaling east to west across the Northern part of the country until they…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – A high risk sex offender living at Centre Inc. in North Fargo is on the run. Thirty-six-year-old Ethan Bendickson is five feet 11 inches tall and weighs 190 pounds. He served more than five years in prison for a federal abusive sexual contact charge for having sex with a 15-year-old girl he knew. Bendickson is on…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KVRR) — North Dakota’s Republican leaders are praising the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling against the EPA. The court said that the Clean Air Act does not give the EPA broad authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that contribute to global warming. North Dakota was one of 20 states that petitioned with West Virginia. “North Dakota…
FOX News (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota attorney general has found the sale of a couple thousand acres of prime farmland to a group tied to Bill Gates complies with a Depression-era law meant to protect family farms because the land is being leased back to farmers. The state’s Republican Attorney General Drew Wrigley…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR/AP) — North Dakota keeps showing signs of economic growth. Taxable sales and purchases for the first quarter of 2022 were up 13.2% compared to the same period last year. State Tax Commissioner Brian Kroshus reports all of the 15 major industry sectors reported increases over the first quarter of 2021. He says it’s the fourth consecutive quarter…
CASS CO., N.D. (KVRR) — Cass County authorities identify the victim of a vehicle fire on Sunday along I-94. He is 36-year-old Matthew Knight of Greenville, Ohio. Knight’s body was taken to the state medical examiner’s office in Grand Forks for an autopsy. Multiple first responders arrived at the scene near mile marker 313, just southwest of Buffalo, around 9…
CASS CO., N.D. (KVRR) — A man is pronounced dead after being pulled from his burning vehicle on I-94 in Cass County. Cass County Sheriff’s Office and multiple first responders were sent to the scene near mile marker 313, just southwest of Buffalo, around 9 a.m. Sunday. They arrived to find a vehicle on fire. The man was pulled from…
