FARGO — They say good things come in small packages, and dogs don’t come a whole lot smaller than Uncle the Chihuahua. He’s still at puppy at only seven months old, but he’s already picked up some great manners. He’s got a very laid back disposition for a breed that’s widely understood to be prone to anxiety, and in spite…
Gizmo’s volunteer handler from CAARE Avian Rescue claimed he had woken up on the wrong side of the cage the morning of Pet Connection. If this is Gizmo grumpy, we can’t imagine how friendly he is when he’s well-rested. Because the first thing the 35-year-old cockatoo did was hop on board Emily just as she was about to read the…
FARGO — Students at West Fargo and Moorhead public schools are set to start school on Thursday. And that means there are only a few days left to get your kids up to date on their shots. New kindergarteners need chicken pox, tetanus, and Hepatitis B vaccinations, as well as the measles/mumps/rubella shot, and the polio vaccine. Doctors recommend kids…
Al Quie (AP photo)WAYZATA, Minn. (KVRR) – Former Minnesota Governor Al Quie has died. Quie was 99 when he died at an assisted living facility in Wayzata. Quie was a Republican member of Congress for more than 20 years and the 35th governor of Minnesota. Before getting into politics, he worked as a farmer and also served as a pilot with…
MOORHEAD — We’re exploding with excitement over the start of the new fall semester soon. And so are the people at Concordia College as they prep for the annual Cobber Corn Feed. It’s set for  Wednesday, August 16 at Concordia College in Moorhead. This year marks a half-century of corn feeds for the college. Every year, the corn feed is…
FARGO — Pride Week is in full bloom in the F-M metro area, and the Jasper Hotel in downtown Fargo is taking that quite literally. The big Pride Parade is on Sunday afternoon in Moorhead, instead of Fargo, for the first time ever. When all the glitter-throwing, music and revelry at the parade wraps up, you’re invited to come on…
FARGO — From corndogs to mini doughnuts, the Fargo Food Truck Festival has it all. For the second year in a row the festival is at the Red River Valley Fairgrounds, which gives the festival extra space for all of that tasty food. Throughout the weekend you can enjoy around twenty vendors. Some of the food trucks are returning and…
This week’s pet comes to us from the Humane Society of the Lakes in Detroit Lakes, and he’s had some significant suffering in his life. The coonhound mix came in from animal control with a couple of other dogs, and Jethro had a noticeable limp. Rescue workers took him to the vet, where they discovered the 11-year-old coonhound mix had…
FARGO — She has a job a lot of folks would love to have, could they but figure out how to get it: Darley Newman gets to travel and get paid to talk about it on TV. And now, the host of the PBS show “Travels with Darley is in Fargo and profiling the many treasures of Eastern North Dakota….
FARGO — They were once on the wrong side of the law. Now, they’re raising money to protect some of the metro’s lawmen — the ones who sacrificed themselves to save their city from an apparent mass shooting attack on July 14th. The F5 Project is a Fargo-based nonprofit that helps get jobs,. homes, and healthy transitions into regular life…
