FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Country Music Hall of Fame member Hank Williams Jr. has Alerus Center in Grand Forks on his limited 2022 tour schedule. Hank will take the stage on Sunday, May 29 along with ACM New Female Artist of the Year Lainey Wilson. The tour includes just 16 stops and in addition to Grand Forks, they’ll also play…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Hector International Airport passenger numbers are trending upwards since January. According to the North Dakota Aeronautics Commission, more than 73,000 passengers used all eight airports in North Dakota in January. That’s 73 percent more than January 2021, but below 100,000 passengers in January 2020. Lack of commercial flights during COVID-19 hurt the state’s largest airport and…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Metro Flood Diversion Authority has put out a new video to explain the massive engineering work being done to create the FM Area Flood Diversion. It will provide permanent flood protection to around 235,000 people when it’s finished in 2027. Greg Thompson with Houston Engineering narrates the video and explains how the different components will work…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — Things got a little heated again at Monday night’s Grand Forks City Council meeting. Some people turned up to speak out one more time against the plan to bring a corn milling plant to the north side of Grand Forks. It’ll be Fufeng Groups first U.S. facility. Those who spoke out are critical of Fufeng’s…
FARGO (KVRR) – Federal prosecutors in Fargo say a settlement has been reached with a bus company that was accused of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. Interim U.S. Attorney Nick Chase says the agreement resolves an allegation that a Jefferson Lines bus driver refused to allow a passenger with a walker to use the bus’s lift to exit the…
Serge Zevlever (Fox News)FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – A man who split his time between the St. Louis area and Ukraine, helping arrange adoptions of children with medical needs, has died amid the fighting in the war-torn country. Serge Zevlever was killed when he volunteered to check on a commotion outside a Kyiv bomb shelter on Feb. 26, his daughters said. That…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – A Horace, North Dakota man has been arrested in connection to a series of six commercial and industrial burglaries that took place in West Fargo last December. Twenty-four-year-old Shelby Whitt was taken into custody on multiple felony burglary charges. Additional charges are possible. Police say Whitt was responsible for a series of targeted commercial and…
Are you looking for an excuse to play with paint, eat candy and shop? How about if it gives you an excuse to support local artists and crafters? Of course you are, because it’s still winter out there, and this is an indoors event. As a matter of fact, it’s one of the biggest events of the winter in the…
DETROIT – McDonald’s said Tuesday it is temporarily closing all of its 850 restaurants in Russia in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine. The company said it will continue paying its 62,000 employees in Russia. In an open letter to employees, McDonald’s President and CEO Chris Kempckinski said closing those stores is the right thing to do because McDonald’s…
BISMARCK, N.D. – More hunting licenses for elk will be offered by North Dakota’s Game and Fish Department this year, but there will be fewer moose licenses. A bighorn sheep hunting season could also take place, depending on the pending results of summer sheep population surveys. The status of that season will be determined Sept. 1. The state is making…
