We are discovering North Dakota this week on the KVRR Local News morning show. Each day we’re exploring a different area ahead of summer travel season. Today we learned about the Wahpeton/Breckenridge area. Wahpeton is home to the Chahinkapa Zoo, and attractions like Wahpper, the world’s largest catfish. They’re having a busy summer, with Blue Goose Days this June,…
You can help clean up one of the most popular parks in the Metro for Earth Day on Thursday. Fargo Moorhead Trailbuilders is hosting a trail clean-up at Gooseberry Park starting at 5 p.m. The group will supply bags and gloves. They just ask that you dress in work clothes. The Trailbuilders develop and maintain more than 17 miles…
What do you get when you combine an Earth Week scavenger hunt along Fargo’s beautiful riverfront with the promise of free pizza? A whole heck of a lot of takers, as it turns out. Conservation and outdoor recreation group River Keepers set the ornament challenge scavenger hunt from this past Saturday all the way through until May first. The best…
The Fargo Parks District is celebrating Earth Day with an entire week full of activities to create some fun here at home and promote sustainable living. The Park District’s Earth Day GooseChase Challenge starts Sunday and runs through next Saturday. Each day on the GooseChase app and the Park District Facebook page, the Park District will reveal a different…
FARGO, N.D. – Fargo Cass Public Health has paused using the Johnson & Johnson vaccine while the CDC investigates six of blood clots in the more than six million people who got the vaccine in the US. They had to cancel a Johnson & Johnson clinic next week, but are in the process of contacting people who signed up…
Small business owners have extra time to apply for forgivable loans to help pay employees during the pandemic. The Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program loan deadline was extended from March 31st to May 31st. The loans require no repayment for 24 weeks, plus 10 months from when the loans are distributed. Business owners have until then to apply for…
VERGAS, Minn. – With vaccination rates going up and life getting closer to normal, we’re seeing how people are getting back on with their life. And this spring, small towns in our region are getting back events that helped bring them together. I bring you to Vergas, Minnesota and the annual Maple Syrup Fest on Saturday. They cancelled the festival…
If you haven’t noticed, I’m on a bit of a roadside attractions kick. Weird statues. Historic buildings. It’s one way of exploring our area while we ease back into branching out further and further from home. There’s a website that’s been invaluable for finding stuff like that. Roadside America. They put out a blog a couple weeks ago specifically…
If you’ve ever spent any time in the hospital, you know that pretty much all you’re thinking about is getting home again. But 6-year-old Ava Berthiaume isn’t battling back against the brain cancer, that struck 3 years ago, in a bed at nearby Sanford or Essentia. She’s stuck in a faraway hospital in Memphis, Tennesee as part of a trial…
It’s a trend that started growing in earnest when the pandemic hit. Now, houseplant aficionados are propagating their obsession with a new Facebook group that’s really blossoming. The group “FM Area Houseplants” got started about a year ago. These days, page administrators say they’re adding about a hundred new members a week. There, you can get the scoop on where…
