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LIVE: ValleyCon 2019

Looking for fellow Halloween-heads? Here's where you can find them.

If you’re looking to get in on the biggest pop culture event of the past 45 years in the Fargo metro area – you’d better head on over to ValleyCon. The region’s chief cosplayers, comic book lovers, sci-fi nerds and movie mavens are all converging there this weekend. The convention offers events that are both family-friendly and adult-only, including costume…

Big Brothers Big Sisters is Teaming up With the F-M Modern Sewing Guild

Creating masterpieces at Liberty Middle School

  WEST FARGO, N.D. – Six Bigs and Littles take part in creating masterpieces at Liberty Middle School. Each pair makes two pillows and donates one to F-M Wine and Dine silent auction. Members of the guild hope sewing is something more people become interested in again. “It’s a way for us to kind of get our name out into…

10-Year-Old Author Raising Money for Clean Water in Africa

Sawyer Anderson will soon be published on three different continents

WEST FARGO, N.D. — It all started with Sawyer Anderson selling cookies at her grandma’s garage sale to raise money for those in Africa with no clean drinking water. The 10–year–old West Fargo author wrote “Water Works”, a book about her mission to raise thousands of dollars to help bring clean water to Zambia. She was inspired to make a…

Oak Grove hosts rummage sale for mission trip fundraiser

The event is to raise money for student mission trips and other travel opportunities.

FARGO, N.D. – Oak Grove Lutheran School hosts it’s annual Rummage sale to raise money so that kids can have the opportunity to do mission trips and other travels. The school has been receiving donations since the summer. Items you will find in the sale include clothing, housewares, furniture, books, and toys. People at Oak Grove say they are excited…

Lilly Field: The Ghost of Otter Tail County

A real-life murder that haunts the lakes country of our region to this day.

It was 1887, and in Otter Tail County, a jury was about to make history. A handyman had committed a murder so atrocious that their only recourse, they decided, was to sentence him to death. It would be the first-ever hanging in Otter Tail County, and it would also be the ending to one of the saddest and most violent…

Fargo Ideas Talks About Ways To Improve the Valley

Big presentations and the sharing of ideas related to the valley given on the big stage at the Fargo Theatre.

FARGO, N.D. — Fargo is getting a little taste of Aspen. Big presentations and the sharing of ideas related to the valley given on the big stage at the Fargo Theatre. Fargo Ideas is the brain child from producers of the Aspen Ideas. It is national think tank talk involving former presidents, activists and members of the scientific community to…

Metro COG Working Towards Finalizing Transportation Plan

FARGO, N.D. – Fargo-Moorhead area cities’ and Cass and Clay Counties’ planning commissions and the Metropolitan Council of Governments discuss finalizing the 2045 Metropolitan Transportation Plan. It covers agency goals, future transportation needs and projects expected to be needed over the next 25 years. The plan hopes to improve transit access, promote projects supporting regional economic growth and increase walking…

LIVE: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sondheim's scary masterpiece comes to life on the local stage -- and in our studios.

It’s a stage show with enough chills, thrills, scares and spatter to get anyone in the mood for Halloween. “Sweeney Todd” takes the stage this week at Fargo’s FMCT, and the Morning Show was lucky enough to get a sneak preview of the performance live in studio for our Ghoul Morning Halloween segment. If you don’t know the show, here’s…

Blaze Pizza is Making Pies for a Good Cause

A portion of evening sales go towards St. Jude Children's Hospital

FARGO, N.D. — Blaze is teaming up with NDSU’s Tri Delta fraternity to donate part of the evenings sales to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Twenty percent of the night’s sales will be donated to St. Jude’s, and for the pizza shop, fundraisers like this are just one way to help give back to the community. “We usually do…