BISMARCK, N.D. – Members of a Bismarck-based North Dakota Army National Guard unit who were called to active duty in Washington, D.C. late last year have begun returning home. About 70 soldiers with Company C, 2nd Battalion of the 285th Aviation Regiment were deployed last November to the nation’s capital. The unit flies the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, and the…
Keith SchroederFARGO (KVRR) – Former Devils Lake Police Chief Keith Schroeder died in a motorcycle crash in the Black Hills. The South Dakota Highway Patrol says Schroeder died July 31 when he crossed the center line and hit an oncoming motorcycle near Keystone. Schroeder’s motorcycle went into the ditch and struck a third motorcycle, which was unoccupied and parked on…
FARGO – Canada is lifting its prohibition on Americans crossing the border to shop, vacation or visit, but the United States is keeping similar restrictions in place for Canadians. The Monday reopening is part of a return to normalcy from COVID-19 travel bans. The border has been closed to nonessential travel since March 2020. The U.S. has said it will…
BISMARCK, N.D. – Around 15 cars of a BNSF coal train derailed south of Bismarck. Bismarck Police, the Burleigh County Sheriff’s Department and Bismarck Fire Department were called out around 3:15 p.m. Sunday for the derailment near Hemlock Street. There were no reports of injuries. BNSF spokeswoman Amy Casas says railroad crews were at the scene Sunday evening and an…
WEST FARGO, ND (KVRR) — The West Fargo Rattlers won the 13-year-old Midwest Plains Regional game last Sunday and today they are preparing to take a trip to Jamestown, New York to play in the Babe Ruth World Series. The Rattlers season had its ups and down from their lead pitcher suffering an elbow injury in the third game of…
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — Thousands of country music fans are now back home after attending the return of WE Fest in Detroit Lakes. Blake Shelton was the headliner Saturday night bringing his many hits to a large crowd. The three day music and camping festival is one of the largest in the entire country. Each night, WE Fest organizers announcing…
Courtesy: Christi Boe BroseGRAND FORKS, N.D. — Sparks from a blown tire set the ditch on fire south of Grand Forks. A viewer sent us this video of fires that broke out in three different spots along a three quarter mile stretch of I-29. North Dakota Highway Patrol tells us that around 2 Sunday afternoon, a vehicle pulling a trailer…
FARGO, N.D. — Fargo Fire Department remained on scene of a fire at a twin home for several hours. They were sent to the 52 hundred block of 50th Avenue South around 4:30 Sunday afternoon. They tell us the fire started in one of the rooms of the twin home but fire crews were quickly able to put it out….
VICTORIA, Minn. (AP) — A relative has identified three people killed in the fiery crash of a small plane in southeastern Minnesota as a surgeon from Omaha, Nebraska, and two of his family members from Wyoming. Jo Mertes, of Mantador, North Dakota, told the Star Tribune Sunday that her nephew, 42-year-old Jacob Mertes and his 37-year-old wife, Sara Mertes, of…
VICTORIA, Minn. (AP) – Officials say a single-engine plane crashed into a Victoria, Minnesota home Saturday evening. The Federal Aviation Administration says the plane was en route from Alexandria Municipal Airport to Eden Prairie’s Flying Cloud Airport when it crashed before 6 p.m. The FAA noted that it is in the early stage of its investigation but was not aware…
