The North Dakota Association of the Blind receives a $10,000 check from the Lions Club ahead of Giving Hearts Day.MOORHEAD, MN – The sound of the ball hitting the pins echoed the same. But how it was delivered? Quite different. “They’ll have a rail system where the person can follow the rail and use that as a guide to their…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Phones were ringing off the hook for the 25th annual Cares for Kids Radiothon for Sanford Children’s Hospital. The Radiothon is hosted by Froggy 99.9, Y94, and KFGO and includes inspiring stories of hope and courage. One hundred percent of every dollar raised will help care for kids at Sanford Last year the event raised $185,000…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — “When we originally thought that maybe he was on that flight with his parents we were everybody was pretty, you know, frazzled and upset,” said Dawn Franklin, Coach for Red River Valley Figure Skating Club. On Wednesday, an American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas collided midair with an Army helicopter, just seconds before it was to…
MOORHEAD — If you’re a fan of the show “Arrested Development,” you’ll probably remember the high-energy, athletic character “Steve Holt” from the show. If you’re a fan of corgis — and who isn’t these days — then you’ll be thrilled to meet his namesake, the corgi-mix puppy Steve Holt, who joined Pet Connection with the help of his 4 Luv…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — The Salvation Army is in dire need of volunteers for its Emergency Disaster Services Team. The team responds to fires, floods, and other critical incidents to provide healing and comfort to those on the scene. They are on call 24-7 in Cass and Clay counties. But in the past few years, volunteers for the team have…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) —Hornbacher’s presents Great Plains Food Bank with a donation of over $49,000 as part of its annual Feed Hope campaign. Each year Hornbacher’s customers make donations during the month of December. What started in 2011 has now raised over $1 million and a total of over two million meals served. The donation this year will be able…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — It’s Girl Scout cookie season and cookies arrived at the Amazon Warehouse to be delivered to the over twenty troops in the FM Metro. The cookie boxes will be distributed to more than 200 girls. Some troops receive up to 500 boxes with the large number of girls in the troop. They follows the goals set…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — On average, students spend around four to eight hours per day on their cell phones. West Fargo Representative Jim Jonas is sponsoring a bill that would require school districts to establish a cellphone policy for students. “The problem has become they interrupt educational time and it takes away from learning. So I would say if there’s…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Representative Jim Kasper of Fargo is among lawmakers sponsoring a bill that would require peace officers to report suspected undocumented immigrants to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The bill says if the peace officer fails to make the report, they could be charged with a class B misdemeanor and be sentenced to up to six…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Advocates from United Way and FM Coalition to End Homelessness have reached the thirty-day mark and identified the key factors of their plans to end homelessness. Objectives for the first benchmark included finding key partners, financial resources and to establish an advisory group. They founded a committee of fourteen organizations, including Churches United, Fargo VA, YWCA…
