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Get Your Thinking Caps On…the Bounty Hunt Has Begun!

The grand prize for the bounty hunt includes a hotel stay and dinner in downtown fargo

FARGO, N.D. — It’s like an escape room, but with no walls and instead there is a pot of gold at the end. Puzzled FM and the Downtown Community Partnership have teamed up to bring the first ever Bounty Hunt to the metro. Thirteen different stores hold unique mind puzzles. Once you think you’ve solved the puzzle, you enter the answer…

Disney on Ice Comes to the Fargodome

Disney on Ice Will be at the Fargodome Thursday Night Through Sunday Afternoon

FARGO, N.D. — You don’t have to travel to Disney World to experience a show full of your favorite Disney characters. Disney on Ice opens tonight at the Fargodome. “They can expect to see a little bit of everything,” promised Laura Chavez, an ensemble skater for Disney on Ice. “We have the classic princess stories like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and…

Bethany Retirement Living Holds Open House for Grace Point Wing

Officials say they're having the open house now since they usually get more new tenants in the spring

FARGO, N.D. — An open house at a new retirement living center in Fargo welcomed many seniors. The Grace Point wing at Bethany Retirement Living was finished last October. Officials say they’re having the open house now since they usually get more new tenants in the spring. They say the living center has hundreds of staff with a wider range…

ND Winter Show in Valley City Still Popular Despite Struggling Economy

How the Agriculturial Economy is Effecting the State Revenue and the North Dakota Winter Show

VALLEY CITY, N.D. — The North Dakota Winter Show in Valley City promotes agricultural business and hope to expand the agricultural culture. Now even though this show is still a popular event, the agricultural economy has been on the downfall for the past couple of years. The state revenue estimates are due today and North Dakota lawmakers are bracing themselves for bad…

Watch LIVE! Minnesota DNR EagleCam

DNR officials say there could be three chicks by the weekend

  MINNESOTA — The chick has arrived! The Minnesota DNR’s EagleCam showed that the first chick of 2017 came into the world this morning. Biologists were concerned that the first egg might not hatch, as it was left in the cold for quite some time immediately after hatching. A second egg has a pip, a scientific term for the hole…

ND Lawmakers Looking to Make Drastic Budget Cuts

The shortfall is blamed on the slumping oil and agriculture economies

  BISMARCK, N.D. — North Dakota legislators have some tough cuts ahead. Newly updated forecasts show a $46.3 million drop in previously expected tax collections. The current two-year budget period ends on June 30. The state treasury is also forecast to take a $103 million hit for the next two-year budget. The shortfall is blamed on the slumping oil and…

More Snow on the Way for Western, Central North Dakota

Winds gusting to 60 miles per hour pushed the heavy snow into huge snowbanks in some locations

NORTH DAKOTA — Western and central North Dakota are in store for more winter weather as many people continue to dig out from the blizzard. Snow is expected to develop on Friday and they could get another half a foot. These pictures are from the North Dakota Highway Patrol. They were taken on Highway 281 between Minnewaukan and Highway 2….

Minnesota Anglers Encouraged to Remove Ice Houses

Due to rapidly deteriorating ice conditions, anglers are being encouraged to remove their shelters now and not wait for the deadlines

  MINNESOTA — It might be a good idea to get those ice houses off of the ice a little early. In northern Minnesota, dark houses, fish houses and portable shelters must be off the ice of inland lakes no later than midnight on Monday, March 20. For Minnesota-Canada border waters, the deadline for removal is March 31. But due…

Pet Connection: Meet Peyton

A purebred Boxer who's a lover, not a fighter.

Peyton is a ten month-old boxer who, like most dogs that age, appears at first glance to be a full-grown dog. But dogs this age still have some filling out to do, and emotionally and psychologically are pretty much puppies. That means they need consistent work from owners keeping them up to scratch on their training, and lots of exercise,…

British Parliament Debates Banning Mandatory Workplace High Heels for Women

Women were told female workers had to regularly re-apply their makeup, have no visible colored roots when it came to their hair, wear non-opaque tights and always wear shoes with a heel between two inches and four inches only

  LONDON — When Nicola Thorp was sent home for wearing flat shoes to her job as a receptionist in London’s financial district, she realized it was her fingers that needed to do the walking. Thorp started an online campaign to put an end to what she called an “outdated” and “sexist” dress code for women in the corporate world….