Author: Juliana Pelaez

Clay County Hosts Grand Opening Ceremony for New Detox Facility, DMV

MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — Clay County held a grand opening ceremony for the new Withdrawal Management/ Detox Facility & DMV. The facility will hold up to 32 people which is two times more than the county facility. As the number of beds that are needed are high across the state of Minnesota, this will gradually decrease the need. Patients will…

Fargo City Commission Passes 2025 Budget On A 3-2 Vote After Heated Discussion

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo City Commission votes three to two to approve Mayor Tim Mahoney’s $133 million 2025 budget after some heated debate at a packed city hall. Commissioners Michelle Turnberg and Dave Piepkorn voted against the budget. They along with Commissioner John Strand wanted to make more cuts after previously cutting D-E-I and unfilled jobs at Fargo Cass…

Grand Forks Air Force Base Members Delivered Toys To Sanford In Honor Of Katarina Louthain

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Grand Forks Air Force Base Squadron brought thousands of toys and items donated to them to Sanford Medical Center. The Toy Drive started after Robert Louthain’s 6-year-old daughter, Katarina, tragically lost her life earlier this year. Katarina was flown to Sanford Children’s Hospital for treatment Members of the base who were close to Katarina wanted to…

UPDATE: Verizon Service is Fully Restored

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Verizon engineers have fully restored the network disruption that impacted customers across the country. In a post to “X” they write that service has returned to normal levels. But if you are still having issues, they recommend restarting your device. They also apologized for any inconvenience but did not state what caused the outages. A site…

Hawley Lutheran Church Members Host Benefit For Elementary School Teacher Battling Cancer

HAWLEY, Minn. (KVRR) — Lend-a-Hand up is working to raise money for a local elementary school teacher battling cancer. A benefit spaghetti feed will be held on Sunday for Trisha Rux, an elementary school teacher from Hawley who was diagnosed with brain cancer. Trisha Rux had taught elementary for 23 years prior to her diagnosis. She is currently undergoing a…

Scheels Will Host 13th Annual Barbecue Championship

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Scheels is back with their annual North Dakota Barbecue Championship. With vendors preparing since Thursday with their stations and smokers for Saturday’s competition. “So obviously Scheels is into sports. And this is the sport of barbecue and so that’s what we are promoting here. We want to expose people to barbecue and competition barbecue and just…

Fargo Fire Department Station 5 Closed For Reconstruction

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo Fire Department has suddenly and temporarily closed Fire Station 5 for reconstruction and renovation work. The work comes after staff at the station noticed shifting and cracks on the building five years ago. While they had been able to work and keep staff in, a recent engineering assessment determined the southern portion of the building…

Minnesota State Chancellor Touring The State To Prepare For Budget Request

MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — Minnesota State Chancellor Scott Olson stops by MSUM to talk about the 2026-2027 funding request and how that would affect colleges and universities. “Since then, since 2014, the state’s investments in higher education has started to move as well as modest tuition increases and frozen tuition during much of the last decade has started to move…