Regional News

SD Senate Committee Endorses Gun Rights Measure

A South Dakota Senate committee has endorsed a measure that would put language in state law opposing any federal attempts to restrict the constitutional right to bear arms.   Read More

Suspended Hamline Basketball Coach Leaves School

Hamline University says suspended basketball coach Nelson Whitmore has left the school after a player was accused of punching a woman.   Read More

Worker Burned At Minn. Crystal Sugar factory

Officials are saying little about an accident that seriously burned a worker at the American Crystal Sugar Co. plant in East Grand Forks last week.   Read More

Teen Charged In Burglary At Minnesota Home Where Others Were Shot

Seventeen-year-old Cody Kasper was charged Tuesday in connection with two burglaries at the home of Byron Smith.   Read More

ND AG Gets Arrest Warrants For 2 Utah contractors

North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem has obtained arrest warrants for two Utah men he says were unlicensed contractors working at a Dickinson construction site where a fatality occurred.   Read More

Business Owner Sues Over Health Plan

A central Minnesota business owner is joining the wave of lawsuits over religious freedom and the birth control mandate including in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.   Read More

Bismarck Conference Focuses On ND Housing Needs

Housing around North Dakota is the focus of a conference in Bismarck this week.   Read More

Criticized ND County Prosecutor Steps Down

A part-time county prosecutor in northeastern North Dakota who has been criticized for his handling of criminal cases including one high-profile case has resigned.   Read More

Nature Conservancy Adds To Preserve In Pope County

The Nature Conservancy says it has protected nearly 150 acres of prairie and wetlands it will add to its 650-acre Ordway Prairie Preserve in Pope County in west-central Minnesota.   Read More

Minn. Dad Pleads Guilty In Candy Confrontation

A father has pleaded guilty to aiming an assault rifle at some youngsters he thought had stolen Halloween candy from one of his children.   Read More