MINNEAPOLIS, MN (KVRR) – Minnesota Governor Tim Walz issued a writ of special election to fill the vacancy left by the death of former Speaker Melissa Hortman. That announcement was made on Friday, July 11. The special election will be held on Tuesday, Sep. 16, 2025, for District 34B in Anoka and Hennepin Counties. A special primary election for nominations…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — Here at the Alerus Center voting has been running smoothly for voters to go in and out. With six days out to election day, voting in North Dakota has seen thousands of voters. “We broke our record yesterday for the first day, 3,008 voters. And the line has not stopped at all today and we’ve…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Early Voting began Tuesday morning in Cass, Grand Forks and Stark Counties. With lines wrapped around the hallways at locations in fargo, people were ready to get their vote in. Cass County reports that over 5,100 people voted between 11 am and 3 pm. “Well right now we’ve had a line ever since we opened the…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — Former North Dakota Governor Ed Schafer has launched a new campaign against Constitutional Measure 2 The ballot question proposed by the state legislature would establish new restrictions on North Dakota’s ballot initiative process. It would require constitutional and non-constitutional initiated measures to be limited to a single subject determined by the Secretary of State. It would…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/NORTH DAKOTA MONITOR) — A proposed statewide property tax reform measure would cost the state about $1.3 billion each fiscal year and the idea is already facing opposition. The proposed measure would end property taxes based on assessed value and rely on the state to fund budgets for counties, cities and school districts. A memo from the Legislative…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A group that wants to do away with electronic voting machines in North Dakota has submitted a new Constitutional initiated amendment to the Secretary of State. The group earlier submitted a similar petition, but withdrew it. The new proposal would require paper ballots and outlaw most mail-in voting. It would require a two thirds vote in…
NORTH DAKOTA (KVRR) – North Dakota is the only state in the country that doesn’t have voter registration. “We have an incredibly secure system with all the laws in place currently, the checks and balances, we really don’t have any cases of fraud,” North Dakota Secretary of State Al Jaeger said. “Our present system of identification is plenty and maybe…
Former President Donald Trump has endorsed Republican Dr. Scott Jensen for Minnesota’s governor. Trump said in a social media post that Minnesota won’t have “any more fiery takeovers of police precincts” if Jensen is elected. It’s a reference to a Minneapolis police station burned by protesters during riots following the killing of George Floyd under Democratic Gov. Tim Walz’s watch….
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KVRR)– The DFL has nominated it’s top candidates for state offices including governor, lt. governor, attorney general and secretary of state during its convention in Rochester over the weekend. Attorney General Keith Ellison was nominated for a second term during the party convention Saturday night in Rochester. Party delegates endorsed Steve Simon for Secretary of State, an office…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. secretary of state, has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday. She was 85. President Bill Clinton chose Albright as America’s top diplomat in 1996, and she served in that capacity for the last four years of the Clinton administration. At the time, she was the highest-ranking woman in the history…
