Alex Derosier

About 70 employees of a Fargo food distribution business went on strike Wednesday, Nov. 18, calling for resumption of union contract talks and drawing attention to what a union spokesman described as “lackadaisical” COVID-19 precautions at the site.

Using his emergency powers, Fargo Mayor Tim Mahoney has The order also encourages all stores and businesses to adopt policies prohibiting entry without wearing masks.

As coronavirus cases climb statewide, the mayors of the five biggest cities in North Dakota have written a letter asking the public to take immediate action to help slow the “significant wave” of cases as health care facilities are being overrun.

A union spokeswoman said many teachers feel switch should happen soon.

Moorhead Area Public Schools announced Friday morning, Sept. 18, that due to rising COVID-19 cases in Clay County the school district will be shifting high school students to complete distance learning on Monday, Sept. 28.

A civil lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court against a Mexican drug cartel by surviving family members of individuals killed late last year when vehicles they were riding in came under attack while traveling between the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua.

Record heat, clear blue skies brought by “compression heating,” according to WDAY Cheif Meteorologist John Wheeler.

Police and the Cass County coroner were investigating an area near a north Fargo park Monday night, April 27, after passersby found what appeared to human bones.

A 27-year-old Moorhead man has been arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder in connection to the disappearance of a 19-year-old woman.

BAGLEY, Minn. — Citing emergency powers provided by the state of Minnesota under its COVID-19 emergency declaration, the Bagley City Council is imposing a temporary curfew in response to a recent increase in property crime, the city’s police department said.

North Dakota State University students won’t be returning to campus following spring break after coronavirus worries prompted the school to move classes online for the rest of the semester.

BARNESVILLE, Minn. — A Clay County Dairy Queen is temporarily shutting down after two employees reported being near someone who tested positive for coronavirus.

West Acres mall plans to close for nearly two weeks to help slow the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus.

MINOT, N.D. — One of the Ward County men confirmed to have COVID-19, the illness caused by coronavirus, is on the Minot Air Force Base, military officials said Wednesday, March 18.

Panic buying spurred by fears of the coronavirus pandemic has cleared shelves of items like toilet paper, hand sanitizer and disinfecting wipes at retailers across the United States.

The 50-year-old Fargo man who died after his Tuesday, March 3, arrest struggled with officers before complaining of trouble breathing and losing consciousness, according to initial interviews with officers involved in the incident.

ARGUSVILLE, N.D. — After years of complaints and the deaths of two horses in December, state and local authorities are conducting an animal welfare investigation at a Cass County property where the owner has long attracted criticism for the conditions in which he keeps his horses.

LAKOTA, N.D. — “The party is over.” That’s what Judge Jason McCarthy said Friday, Feb. 7, before sentencing Jordan Lee Borland of Lisbon, N.D., to seven years in prison for criminal vehicular homicide.

CROOKSTON, Minn. — The Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis has been cleared by Catholic Church leadership to continue its probe into the Crookston bishop’s alleged cover-ups of clerical sexual abuse.

A Norman County woman charged in a 2018 farmstead murder entered a plea Tuesday, Jan. 28 — just weeks before she was set for trial in Clay County District Court, where she faced the possibility of an enhanced sentence.