WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — West Fargo Police Department Chief Denis Otterness says he is retiring. Otterness was appointed as Chief of Police in September 2020. The chief retires with 33 years of law enforcement experience in a variety of agencies. He first got his start as a police officer with the Bloomington Police Department in 1998. His retirement takes…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — New students at Concordia College are already making a difference in the community. During orientation week, students are helping out with the annual Hands for Change outreach event. One of the locations is at Lake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Moorhead. They are spread out at 24 different service projects in the Fargo-Moorhead area. Classes…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Fargo native is cast to play the lead role in the North American tour of “Mean Girls.” Natalie Shaw will play “Cady Heron,” who was played by Lindsay Lohan in the 2004 movie. Shaw graduated from Davies High School in 2015 and from the University of Minnesota in 2019. Growing up in Fargo, she was…
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (KVRR/CNN) — The Minneapolis City Council voted to approve a new rideshare protections ordinance. The vote passed 7 to 5. The ordinance will set a minimum wage for rideshare drivers with Lyft and Uber. Lyft sent a letter to the city council earlier this week and said it will be forced to cease operations in the city on…
RED LAKE, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — The Red Lake Nation in northwestern Minnesota plans to roll out a mobile dispensary. The on-reservation NativeCare was the state’s first recreational marijuana store to open this month. The dispensary, which will resemble a food truck, will allow the tribe to expand its cannabis business into other markets, but only on tribal lands. It’s estimated…
KENMARE, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — The North Dakota Highway Patrol says a Fargo man is hospitalized in Minot with life-threatening injuries after his semi crashed into another semi. The collision happened Wednesday on Highway 52 near Kenmare. Forty-two-year-old’s Victor Moreno’s truck approached a construction zone where a flagger had stopped traffic. The semi failed to stop and rear-ended a second semi…
BECKER COUNTY, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — A Frazee man has been charged in Becker County District Court with felony illegal possession of a firearm and receiving stolen property. Twenty-two-year-old Allen King was arrested after emergency dispatchers received a report of a man with a gun in the Jimmy John’s parking lot in Detroit Lakes. Shortly afterward, an employee at Masterpiece Alternatives…
Annual Corn Feed, August 2023MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — Concordia College hosts its annual Cobber Corn Feed. The event is open to everyone from alumni and students to the general public. It’s an all-volunteer effort to shuck 3,500 ears of corn for tonight’s feast. Not only are they serving up free corn, they have live music and inflatables for kids. This…
EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — East Grand Forks is the latest Minnesota city to approve an ordinance prohibiting the use of THC products in public. Without discussion, the council gave final reading Tuesday night to the ban that would make the use of cannabis products in public a petty misdemeanor. It includes all forms of the product from cannabis…
RED LAKE, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — Business is booming at Minnesota’s first recreational cannabis dispensary in Red Lake. The NativeCare dispensary was the first cannabis business to open following the state’s legalization of recreational marijuana on August 1. It served over 300 customers on the first day of business. The dispensary still seeing hundreds of customers every day. Tribal officials plan…
