BISMARCK, N.D. (NORTH DAKOTA MONITOR) - A House committee on Thursday advanced a resolution that advises the 2027 Legislature to make lawmakers mandatory reporters of child abuse. The proposal is sponsored by Rep. Nico Rios, R-Williston, and was drafted by the North Dakota Young Republicans. Rios said the organization ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (NORTH DAKOTA MONITOR) - A divisive prison sentencing bill introduced by Attorney General Drew Wrigley's office failed in the House Thursday after more than 90 minutes of debate by lawmakers. Senate Bill 2128 sought to make sure inmates in the state prison system spend most of their sentence in prison. T...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - A bill to provide extended unemployment insurance benefits to laid-off miners on the Iron Range has been passed by a Minnesota House Committee. The bill, proposed by Democratic Representative Pete Johnson of Duluth, would provide impacted workers with an additional 26 weeks of unemployment insurance. ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Flu activity continues to decline in Minnesota. The state department of health is reporting four flu-related deaths in the last week and a total of 340 this season. 64 people were hospitalized for flu complications, which is down from 93 two weeks ago. The nearly 7,400 total hospitalizations are nearl...

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (KFGO) - A woman accused of vandalizing a Tesla in Bloomington will avoid criminal charges. Police say the owner decided not to pursue charges. A woman scraped a parked Tesla with a key late last month. Damage to the vehicle was about $3,200. The woman has paid for the damage. Teslas have been the ta...

FORT TOTTEN, N.D. (KFGO KVRR) - The Spirit Lake Tribe in northeastern North Dakota is taking steps to fill a shortage of police officer positions on the reservation. Chairwoman Lonna Street says the tribe has established a Memorandum of Agreement with Bureau of Indian Affairs, the federal agency which oversees and mana...

FARGO (KFGO) - The mother of a 19-year-old woman who died while in the Rolette County Jail in northern North Dakota has been granted a court judgement with the county and two former correctional officers. Jessica Allen will be paid $2 million. Court documents say In June of 2020, Lacey Higdem was found in the woods. Sh...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Travelers should prepare to slow down for construction work zones as road projects begin to ramp up across the state, the Minnesota Department of Transportation announced Thursday. The agency has nearly 180 road construction projects this season that will help maintain and improve Minnesota's roads, b...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - When North Dakota voters approved term limits for state legislators, they specified that the Legislature couldn't seek to change the new restrictions. On Wednesday, the state House opted to propose a big change anyway. "You have plain language in the constitution restricting what the Legislat...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Federal prosecutors say a St. Paul man is pleading guilty for his role in an illegal crypto-jacking scheme. In February 2020, 44-year-old Joshua Armbrust resigned from Digital River, a Minnetonka-based global E-commerce and payment processing company. Between December 2020 and May 2021, he "crypt...