Grand Forks Air Force Base/FacebookGRAND FORKS AIR FORCE BASE (KVRR) — Five Global Hawks at Grand Forks Air Force Base are divested and delivered to Grand Sky. The 319th Reconnaissance Wing moved the hawks across the flight line to its civilian partners. They will be outfitted with different sensor technology. Sen. John Hoeven says the Air Force is retiring the…
POLK CO., Minn. (KVRR) — A Polk County Sheriff’s Office airboat that tipped and sank in Maple Lake in Mentor on Wednesday morning is now out of the lake. Crews removed the airboat around 8 Wednesday night with the help of LePier’s Dock and Boat Lift Service and Advanced Tire out of Crookston. They say all fluid containers were intact…
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. (KVRR) — A 6-year-old boy has died after he was pulled from the pool at Holiday Inn in Alexandria earlier this month. Police have identified the boy as Japheth Peng, but did not say where he was from. The boy was pulled from the pool on June 11th and bystanders were doing CPR when first responders arrived. He…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — A presidential major disaster declaration is being requested by North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum. The declaration would cover severe spring storms and flooding. The storms broke precipitation records, knocked out power thousands of people and caused over $57 million in damage across the state. Burgum has requested that a major disaster be declared for 40 counties: Adams, Barnes,…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — Fire crews encounter heavy smoke and fire coming from the back of a house in Grand Forks after the failure of an electrical cord on a window air conditioning unit. The fire department was called around 8:30 Wednesday morning to the 1800 block of 4th Street North. Crews were able to quickly put the fire…
POLK CO., Minn. (KVRR) — Two people are hurt after a Polk County Sheriff’s Office airboat tips over and sinks to the bottom of Maple Lake in Mentor. It happened just after 9 a.m. Wednesday. The sheriff’s office was helping the highway department install buoys on the east shore of the lake when the boat tipped and sank. Two members…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — We have an update for you on the 2022 Great Race that left Warwick, Rhode Island on Sunday and will finish in Fargo, North Dakota this Sunday. 120 vintage vehicle teams are now in Ohio. They had lunch in Medina and will overnight in Perrysburg. The trek west continues in the morning as they head into…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — A Grand Forks man is arrested and charged with four counts of reckless endangerment for a gun-related incident over the weekend. Police arrested 26-year-old Kyle Genes after finding several shell casings in the 1900 block of 12th Street South on Sunday. No one was hurt. Police say it was a domestic incident and not tied…
Power Lines Down Near Sabin, MN / June 20, 2022FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Cass County Electric crews are busy restoring power to hundreds of households after the storms passed through. As of 8:00 Monday night, around 1,500 outages were reported from Valley City to Fargo and South to Colfax. Xcel Energy crews are working to restore power to hundreds of…
BELTRAMI CO., Minn. (KVRR) — Two groups tubing on the Mississippi River just east of Bemidji get into a fight in a shallow spot of the river and one woman is stabbed. Beltrami County deputies were sent to the river around 6:30 Sunday night. They say the fight involved around 25 people. 20-year-old Alleyah Goodman of Deer River was arrested…
