FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — He holds the Order of Manitoba and the Order of Canada and he’ll soon have a bridge named in his honor in his hometown of Winnipeg. He is rock legend Randy Bachman, a founding member of two world famous bands: The Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. It’s BTO he’ll be leading when he stops in Mahnomen…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Margaret Chutich, the first openly gay justice on the state’s highest court, announced her retirement Tuesday. Chutich was appointed by former Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton to the Minnesota Court of Appeals in 2012 and to the Minnesota Supreme Court in 2016, then elected in 2018. Her resignation gives Democratic Gov. Tim Walz two…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A special meeting of the Fargo City Commission is set for next Tuesday as the Windbreak Saloon appeals its liquor license violation. Late last year, the bar came under the review of the Fargo Liquor Control Board. The Windbreak’s violation was for over-serving. Police say a 23-year-old woman crashed her car into a pole and was…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Police in West Fargo catch a burglary suspect in the act. They had to track down 29-year-old Christopher Wilkie of West Fargo after he ran into the salvage yard at West Fargo Self Service Auto Parts around 7 this morning. A K-9 and drone were used to search the salvage yard and Wilkie was eventually…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A man who threatened a shooting at Heritage Middle School in Horace changes his plea to guilty to terrorizing. 35-year-old James Donnelly was sentenced earlier this month to five years in prison. Local authorities were tipped off by the FBI about Donnelly, who has no permanent address. He was arrested at a Fargo hotel two days…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Tuesday night on KVRR Local News: we talk with a music legend. Randy Bachman has revived BTO for another tour and they are coming to Shooting Star Casino in Mahnomen on Friday night. Hear the Winnipeg native’s recollections of playing in Grand Forks and Fargo in the early days of his career, tomorrow night. Categories: Entertainment,…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — After 10 days of packing meals for hungry kids around the globe, Feed My Starving Children FargoPack has just missed its goal of 10 million meals. The volunteer effort packed a total of 9,712,224 meals. That is enough to feed 26,608 kids every day for a year. Over the past ten days, 27,000 people volunteered their…
RICHLAND CO., N.D. (KVRR) — North Dakota Highway Patrol has released the name of a Fargo man who died after crashing his minivan on I-29 south of Hankinson early Friday morning. They say 59-year-old Terry Pierson left the interstate near Dakota Magic Casino, hit a road-closed barricade and then struck supports for a highway sign. He died at the scene….
UPDATE (8PM 01/14/24) A Winger, Minnesota teen is being held in Crookston after a stabbing during a bar fight last night in McIntosh, about a half hour north of Mahnomen. Polk County Sheriff’s Office arrested 19-year-old Jayden Ray in connection to the incident. They were called to Little Bobby’s Bar and Grill just after midnight and found a number of…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — North Dakota Health and Human Services has a new leader, and he comes from Texas. Gov. Doug Burgum has appointed Wayne Salter to lead the state’s largest agency. Salter is a former Texas Health and Human Services executive. He has more than 25 years of experience and leadership in human service programs, strategic planning and process…
