FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — City crews in Fargo, West Fargo and Grand Forks have plans in place to help with all of your downed branches due to the ice storm. Fargo will offer a special residential curbside brush-chipping program beginning January 2. The program will run for two weeks and conclude on January 12. You should place all brush on…
MINOT, N.D. (KVRR) — An airman with the 119th Wing of the North Dakota National Guard was killed during a shooting in Minot on Christmas Eve. National Guard has identified the victim as 41-year-old Master Sgt. Nicholas Van Pelt. He died after a shooting at his apartment in southwest Minot. Van Pelt was with the 219th Security Forces Squadron at…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — All of the essential ingredients are now in place for next month’s Feed My Starving Children FargoPack mobile packing event. The goal is to pack 10 million meals for starving kids around the globe. A total of 44 trucks brought 26 loads of rice, eight loads of soy, two loads of vitamins, two loads of vegetables,…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Majority of roads in the region are open but there are still icy and wet spots being reported. I-29 between Fargo and Canada had been closed last night but reopened this morning. Some spots near the border are still reporting fog as of 2:45 Wednesday afternoon. Some roads near Valley City and Jamestown are still covered…
Outage Map as of 3pm 12/26FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Cass County Electric Cooperative continues working to restore power after well over 150 outages were reported. Here is a look at the outage map for the co-op around 3 Tuesday afternoon. Several thousand members have been impacted by outages with the rural service areas hosting the bulk of the problems. Cass…
CASS CO., N.D. (KVRR) — Fire crews from Kindred, Horace and Davenport respond to a detached garage fire in rural Kindred. The call came in around 11 this morning. The garage was fully engulfed in flames when crews arrived on scene. It was contained to the detached garage and didn’t spread. No one was injured. The cause of the fire…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR:5PM Update) — It’s a Christmas Day ice storm. That has the National Weather Service upgrading it’s winter weather watch to an Ice Storm Warning for Barnes, Cass, Ransom, Sargent, Richland Counties. Significant icing expected. Total ice accumulations up to one half of an inch, with some areas receiving up to three quarters of an inch. Winds gusting…
PARK RAPIDS, Minn. (KVRR) — A man walking in Park Rapids is hit by a vehicle and later dies at a hospital. Minnesota State Patrol says the incident happened Friday night just before 6 o’clock when 68-year-old Willard Pietila was walking near 1st Street West and Lake Avenue. He was hit by a Jeep driven by 37-year-old Lacy Johansen of…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo’s Police Advisory & Oversight Board is hearing about this year’s stats when it comes to arrests and the use of force by officers. Fargo officers have responded to 90,189 calls for service, with 5,888 calls resulting in arrests. Of those, use of force was used in 152 calls and around 2.5% of arrests involved an…
NELSON CO. N.D. (KVRR) — A vehicle reported stolen in Fargo is involved in a high speed chase with law enforcement on Highway 2 near Larimore. A Grand Forks deputy tried to stop the vehicle just afer 11 last night but the driver fled hitting speeds of 100 miles per hour. It took a PIT maneuver and tire deflation devices…
