Author: KVRR Staff

Hope, Inc. Adaptive Track Meet gives athletes of all abilities a chance to compete

The hot wheels are back but this time they're on the track.

MOORHEAD, Minn. – “How much fun did you have on a scale of one to ten? A 10!” said Levi. Hope Inc hosted their annual adaptive track meet, where kids and adults have the opportunity to race. “If you saw the faces of the kids , the families, the grandparents today it means alot for them to complete and be…

California teen comes to Fargo on trip to honor veterans in every state

A young man's quest to honor veterans made a stop in Fargo

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – A young man’s quest to honor veterans made a stop in Fargo. “Just make sure you honor veterans every day,” Preston Sharp said. Preston Sharp is traveling from coast to coast to place flags and flowers on veteran gravesites across America. “That kid is awesome and it an great honor to do this and help him,”…

USL W League bringing women’s soccer franchise to MN

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Officials with the USL W League, a women’s pre-professional soccer league starting in May 2022, will have Minnesota as one of eight inaugural franchises. The league will serve as the nation’s top pre-professional league, developing top women’s soccer talent across the country. Minnesota’s franchise was created over the last year, and will include a community ownership…

Hundreds Block Line 3 Pipeline Work Station

Indigenous leaders, actress Jane Fonda and more than one thousand water protectors march to the headwaters of the Mississippi River

SOLWAY, Minn. (KVRR) – Indigenous leaders, actress Jane Fonda and more than one thousand water protectors march to the headwaters of the Mississippi River where the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline is proposed to cross the water. They were so determined to stop it, they chained themselves to equipment. Hundreds of protesters led by the Treaty People Gathering rallied and marched…

Keeping teens safe during the 100 Deadliest Days on the road

Memorial Day to Labor Day

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – Nationwide more than 30 percent of deaths involving young drivers happen during what’s called the 100 Deadliest Days from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Advice to parents can include talking with teens often about abstaining from dangerous behavior behind the wheel, establishing a parent-teen driving agreement that sets family rules for teen drivers. Parents can lead…

“Treaty People Gathering” prepare for protest Monday in Northern Minnesota

More than 1000 Water Protectors and Indigenous Leaders for Treaty People are calling for the enbridge line 3 pipeline to be discontinued

MENAHGA, Minn. (KVRR)- “Pipelines go straight and rivers don’t,” said Winona LaDuke. The line 3 pipeline is making headlines once again in Minnesota as water protectors are calling for it to be shut down. “Cause you know this is a 915,000 barrel a day Tarzan pipeline project. This is the largest tar sand pipeline project in the world and the…

Moorhead pools open for the summer amid record-breaking temperatures

There is no denying that it's hot outside and people are looking at every possibility to cool off

MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Summer is heating up and people are looking for ways to beat the heat. “This has been something they wanted to do for a week now and they see it filling up and they just been dying to get in and it’s only like two or three blocks from us,” parent Latasha Calamese said. The City of…

UPDATE: Audubon convenience store robbery suspect turns himself in

UPDATE: Twenty-six-year-old Alexander Butcher of Coon Rapids was arrested Friday afternoon after turning himself into the Becker County Sheriff’s Office.   AUDUBON, Minn. (KVRR) – The Becker County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a robbery at a convenience store in Audubon. The robbery at Orton’s Cenex Convenience Store was reported shortly before 1:00 a.m. Tuesday. Investigators say a male suspect passed…