Author: KVRR Staff

Kesselring Vineyards near Kindred is Making Wine in a Different way

KINDRED, N.D. (KVRR) – Harvest has begun at the only winery in North America that harvests Riverbank grapes and it’s just half an hour from Fargo. Kesselring Vineyards in Kindred uses Vitis Riparia better known as Riverbank grapes. Kesselring Vineyards owner Jason Kesselring said, “Locally people have been making it in different variations forever but it’s never been done commercially….

Burgum Gives Speech on Foreign Policy and Security While Rep. Phillips Mulls Dem Bid for President

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KVRR/AP/CNN) — Gov. Doug Burgum delivers his foreign policy address taking aim at President Joe Biden and his administration’s policies. The Republican presidential candidate made his remarks at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. Burgum says Biden’s policies give a green light across central America to run for the southern border. He calls…

ShareHouse Recovery Center warns of possible scam that could lure people into trafficking

FARGO (KFGO) – ShareHouse has received reports of a potential scam involving a group posing as representatives of local treatment facilities. ShareHouse says they are offering to fly people, who are looking for treatment, to other states. It warns that this may a scam which is putting people in trafficking, not treatment. ShareHouse operates in Fargo and Grand Forks. It…

West Fargo begins the next step of its sanitation study with a survey

WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – It will help the city meet the sanitation needs of the community. The questions focus on the city’s need for large ideas and extra garbage pick up. The survey also reflects community member’s overall satisfaction with the Sanitation Division. People living in West Fargo have until 8 pm on October 23rd to fill out the survey…

Great Plains Food Banks Mobile Pantry makes five stops

MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – In 2008 Great Plains Food Bank started their mobile food pantry, delivering fresh produce and non-perishables to those in need. Moorhead Business Association member and volunteer Alisha Nelson said, “It’s crazy how much there’s a need. I mean there’s a line even before I got here and it hasn’t stopped since I’ve been here so there’s…

Two Members of Drug Trafficking Gang That Targeted Reservations Are Sentenced in Fargo

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A leader in a drug trafficking ring that targeted two North Dakota reservations is sentenced in Fargo. 29-year-old Devonsha Dabney of Detroit was given 15 years in federal prison after he pled guilty to drug charges. He was arrested after an investigation into the multi-state trafficking of oxycodone and fentanyl laced pills. The investigation found that…

Nursing Home Resident Who Died After Getting Burned While Smoking Is Identified

LAKOTA, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A nursing home resident in Lakota, North Dakota who died after his pants caught fire has been identified as 85-year-old Keith Paulson. Paulson was outside Good Samaritan Society Nursing Home on Friday to smoke and started a fire on the ground. He attempted to put it out by driving over the flames with his mobility scooter…

Minnesota teacher grows pumpkin weighing 2,749 pounds, sets world record

Travis Gienger of Anoka, Minn., holds his two-year-old daughter Lily and poses by his pumpkin called “Michael Jordan” after winning the Safeway 50th annual World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. Gienger won the event with a pumpkin weighing 2749 pounds. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — A Minnesota horticulture teacher set…