President Donald Trump speaks alongside Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)WASHINGTON (KVRR) – The Trump Administration is withholding funding for Medicaid programs in Minnesota and four other states over concerns about fraud. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the…
PLUMMER, Minn. (KVRR) – The Minnesota State Patrol is investigating a deadly head-on crash in Red Lake County. Sgt. Jesse Grabow says the crash happened on U.S. Highway 159 near Plummer just before 7:00 a.m. Wednesday. Grabow says one person is dead and another is injured. More information is expected later today. Categories: Local News, Minnesota News
ROTHSAY, Minn. (KVRR) – A former city clerk from Rothsay who stole thousands of dollars from the city has been sentenced after reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors. Court documents say 38-year-old Lisa Marie Zimmerman was sentenced to 30 days of electronic home monitoring and five years of supervised probation. A judge also ordered Zimmerman to pay a fine and…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KVRR/FOX9) – Gov. Tim Walz answered reporters’ questions for the first time since he announced he will not seek a third term amid a fraud scandal that’s led to national attention. Walz spoke at a news conference that was held to highlight the state’s new paid Family Leave program, which pays residents who need to take time…
Fargo Public LibraryFARGO (KVRR) – A local support group for people who are blind and sight impaired in the Fargo area will hold its next monthly meeting on Saturday, January 10. Insight will meet at 10:30 a.m. in the community room at the Northport Branch of the Fargo Public Library at 2714 North Broadway. Fargo ophthalmologist Dr. Lance Bergstrom will…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — It’s another gust of snow traveling through parts of North Dakota and Minnesota. As both a Winter Weather Advisory and a blizzard warning stay in effect. “As those winds pick up, I think the latest report from Fargo is one or two inches. Which is going to be enough to probably lead to those blizzard conditions…
BECKER COUNTY, Minn. (KVRR) – Indigenous rights activist Winona LaDuke says the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension collected “plenty” of evidence in the investigation of November’s drive-by shooting at her home in Becker County. But LaDuke says no one has been able to identify any suspects. LaDuke wasn’t home at the time, but three teenage grandchildren were there when several…
FARGO (KVRR) – A Fargo man was arrested early Friday after police responded to a report of a stabbing. At about 12:47 a.m., police were called to the 1200 block of 2nd Ave. S. They found two men who had been stabbed. Both are stable with non-life threatening injuries. Thirty-four-year-old Maverick Herald, of Fargo was arrested for two counts of…
Courtesy, North Dakota Highway Patrol7:50 PM UPDATE: North Dakota Department of Transportation and the North Dakota Highway Patrol have OPENED I-29 from Grand Forks to Canada. 5:45 PM UPDATE: North Dakota Department of Transportation and the North Dakota Highway Patrol have CLOSED I-29 from Grand Forks to Canada due to blowing snow and areas of zero visibility. The highway is…
Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy & Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.FARGO (KVRR) – The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association is asking Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to help a pilot recover his airplane after it was seized following an emergency landing on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. The AOPA says pilot Darrin Smedsmo was forced to make an emergency…
