ST. PAUL (AP/KVRR) — Minnesota Nurses Association announces 15,000 nurses are going to go on strike in 10 days. The nurses will strike for three days at 16 hospitals across seven different hospital systems in the Twin Cities and Duluth, as well as, Moose Lake and Superior, Wisconsin. The strike is the largest nurses’ strike in U.S. history, according to…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) — A contractor cut a four-inch natural gas line during installation this morning causing a gas leak that cut off service to about 30 Xcel Energy customers. The area impacted was from the intersection of County Road 17 and 32nd Avenue north of West Fargo. The gas pipe is under a railroad line. As a precaution,…
MEDINA, Minn. — Minnesota-based Polaris has issued a “stop riding and stop selling” order affecting over a quarter-million of its snowmobiles. The company warns of a fire hazard from degraded fuel in gas tanks, particularly after extended storage. Polaris says the problem has resulted in 30 gas tank ruptures, 16 fires, and one reported injury. Affected are some Matryx models…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — Roers has started construction on seven townhomes on the east side of St. Paul’s Newman Center in north Fargo. They were supposed to be built by December 2021 in an agreement with the city for the project that includes the center, faith-based housing, and the “View on University Apartments.” Company president Jim Roers blamed skyrocketing costs…
MOSCOW (AP) – Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, has died at 91. The Central Clinical Hospital said in a statement that Gorbachev died Tuesday after a long illness. No other details were…
FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) — University Police at NDSU are investigating a sexual assault on campus. It was reported to have happened in a residence hall around 1:30 Saturday morning. The report indicated the suspect and the victim met earlier in the evening at an off-campus location. They are looking for anyone who might have information that might aid in the…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — Two people are arrested when a traffic stop turns into a chase that began shortly after 1 a.m. on the Main Avenue Bridge, headed into Moorhead then back into Fargo. Police say the car eventually came to a stop and the passenger, 32-year-old Skyler Poitra who has no permanent address, ran. He was quickly caught by…
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A judge has again blocked a trigger law banning abortion in North Dakota as he weighs a lawsuit from the state’s lone abortion clinic. The clinic argues that the law violates the state constitution. Burleigh County District Judge Bruce Romanick on Thursday granted the motion for a preliminary injunction sought by the Red River Women’s Clinic…
VALLEY CITY, N.D. (KFGO/KVRR) — A Fargo man is facing several felony charges after allegedly assaulting a Barnes County Sheriff’s deputy. Authorities say 49-year-old Dustin Lende was being pursued in Cass County for a prior incident and it ended when he fled into Barnes County. Deputies later responded to a call of a suspicious man in the lobby of a…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — Fargo City Commissioners agree it’s time for a vacant house to go. The structure at 437 23rd Street South has been declared a dangerous building. The woman who owned the house passed away and it was difficult for city building inspectors to find out who owns the building. It belongs to a New Jersey mortgage company….
