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: 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…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – People in South Fargo were woken up early Thursday morning when one of their neighbors threatened to burn down a house. First responders were called to a house on 1700 block of 13 ½ street which was initially described as a structure fire but later turned into a domestic dispute. “For a disturbance there was a…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – The Fargo City Commission approves Dr. Terry Hogan to be the Fargo Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Hogan is from Chicago and will be the first person to hold the position in Fargo. His background includes working in public and private sectors along with nonprofit sectors. Hogan says he wants his role to be that change…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX9) – Thousands of Minnesota state workers are receiving layoff notices Tuesday that warn of a July 1 state government shutdown if lawmakers are unable to strike a budget deal before then. Under its labor contracts and compensation plans, the state must issue the layoff notices one month before a potential shutdown. Gov. Tim Walz said he…
HARWOOD, N.D. (KVRR) — “Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends let us pray.” The city of Fargo honored and remembered those who sacrificed their lives for our country’s freedom here at the Fargo National Cemetery. “It’s probably one of the best kept secrets in the area,” said Lt. JG Trent…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — “I just want to thank my mom and my grandpa and my little brother for supporting me and this awesome staff here at West Fargo High School,” said Cody Wirtzfeld. The West Fargo High School Class of 2021 held its in-person graduation ceremony this afternoon at the Essentia Health Packer Stadium. Two hundred seventy-four graduates…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A local woman is putting her skills of caring for and educating people about exotic reptiles to use. “We really are one of a kind,” said Kritter Krazy Reptile and Exotic Rescue founder Tasha Gorentz. Kritter Krazy Reptile and Exotic Rescue specializes in rescuing exotic reptiles, rehabilitating and rehoming them along with educating people about these…
MINNEAPOLIS – June will be a critical month for Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 crude oil pipeline as the company resumes construction and opponents mobilize for large-scale protests and civil disobedience. One prominent opponent, Winona LaDuke, founder of the Indigenous-based environmental group Honor the Earth, said she expects thousands of people from across the state and country to join the protests…
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – South Dakota’s public universities shouldn’t be teaching certain concepts of race and racism, Gov. Kristi Noem said Tuesday, in line with a nationwide GOP movement to keep critical race theory out of classrooms. In a letter to the Board of Regents that oversees the state’s six public universities, the Republican governor targeted critical race theory and…
