MOORHEAD, Minn. — A new scam alert from Clay County Sheriff Mark Empting. He says the scam involves a person claiming to be a Special Agent Josh Penn. The scammer claims he is working on behalf of the IRS and that your bank account was used to set up illegal bank accounts for drug cartels in Texas. The caller is…
FARGO, N.D. — Fargo Planning Commission has unanimously approved a zoning change for a $19 million housing complex in the Oak Grove neighborhood, just north of downtown. The River Lofts includes apartments, condos and townhouses which will buffer the four-story apartment building from homes in the historic neighborhood. There had been pushback about the project size from some homeowners in…
NORMAN CO., Minn. — A Ponsford man is dead and another man hurt after a rollover east of Twin Valley, Minnesota. Norman County Sheriff’s Office says 23-year-old Tyler Bloom died at the scene shortly before 9:30 Tuesday night on county road 29. 24-year-old Kenneth Peake-Rogers Jr. of White Earth was taken to the hospital in Mahnomen. Both men were thrown…
American hockey players versus Russian players almost always equals a scintillating time on the ice. And this time around, HOPE Inc. is amping up the excitement. That’s because for the first time ever, their standout adaptive athletes are invited to face off against Russia as well as the top American youth teams in the first-ever International Youth Sled Hockey Tournament….
The silent music of the celestial spheres is something we’ve wondered about for as long as humans have been watching the skies above. Holst tried to capture its sound in his “The Planets,” but for something that’s based on real science, head on over to the Plains Art Museum instead. Musician/scientists are capturing the vibrations of the planets, and they’re…
FARGO, N.D. — Lots of streets throughout the metro are still scattered with debris and tree branches. Monday was a busy evening for the Fargo Fire Department. They say they had three times the volume of calls they normally have during the storm. That’s 95 calls from 6 to 10 p.m. “It compounds. They were coming in faster than we…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — North Dakota is no stranger to wildlife. “I’ve had reports of fox in the city, coyotes in the city. We have a deer herd in the city,” said North Dakota Game and Fish Outreach Biologist Jim Job. Last year, a bear made its way into University Park. “It climbed up into one of the biggest trees…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — Park Christian is home to more than 430 students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The school’s staff says you can expect that number to go up in the future though, meaning the campus will have to keep up. “We’re trying to transform our building to make it more accessible for more families to come here. We’re anticipating…
Social media can have a big impact on students when it comes time to apply to college or for a job. The Better Business Bureau has some tips. They say it’s a good idea for kids to consider what a future employer can find on their social media accounts before making a post. Making them private is also encouraged, though…
FARGO, N.D. — Xcel Energy says they are working as quickly as they can to get power restored to everyone in the area. We have watched the numbers fall all evening. The company is now down to around a dozen outages impacting about as many customers. During last night’s storm, about 19,000 customers lost power in Fargo and West Fargo….
