MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Activists hold a news conference in Moorhead to support Andrea Pedro-Francisco, who was detained by federal immigration agents in Minnesota on Feb. 5, days before a scheduled surgery and biopsy on an ovarian cyst. Pedro-Francisco is being held in El Paso, Texas. Categories: Local News, Minnesota News
Interim Health and Human Services Director Pat Traynor, from left, Gov. Kelly Armstrong and first lady Kjersti Armstrong lead state employees on a walk at the Capitol on April 1, 2026. Federal rural health grant dollars are available to support walking programs and other wellness initiatives. (Photo courtesy of the Office of the Governor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — North…
GRAND FORKS AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – President Donald Trump’s 2027 budget includes $250 million for a satellite operations center at Grand Forks Air Force Base, expanding the u-s space force’s role in next-generation missions. The expansion will bring a 180,000 square foot facility and over 100 personnel to the base. Sen. Kevin Cramer is chair of the Senate…
FINLEY, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – Residents of Finley can finally use water from the tap again. Last Friday, the city’s water system lost pressure due to a main line leak. Residents were asked to not use water for anything, including flushing the toilet. While Finley was without water, the city distributed water, the Spirit Lake tribe donated thousands of bottles of…
MOORHEAD (KVRR-KFGO) – The Minnesota Department of Transportation says a Highway 75 resurfacing project in Moorhead will begin Monday. Fargo-based Border States Paving is the primary contractor for the $1.4 million project between 46th Avenue and the 60th Avenue S. roundabout. The work includes resurfacing, replacing culverts, ditch cleaning, and sidewalk upgrades. The road will remain open, but there will…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – The run-up to local elections continues, as candidates seek to engage with the public in hopes of winning coveted city commission seats. The city of West Fargo held a town hall meeting on April 23 at the West Fargo Fire Department for candidates for their city commission vacancies. Four people are vying for two open…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — This letter, sent to a recipient, shows that they received a final notice with a court enforcement action for an outstanding traffic violation. But, while it may look like an official notice, Cass County Sheriff Jesse Jahner says otherwise. “The way that this thing presents is that it says that it comes from the state of…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – The Fargo Forward Coalition may technically be a new organization, but the enthusiasm its co-chairs have for the penny infrastructure sales tax in the city is not. “In 2006, I was one of the almost 70% of Fargo voters who voted ‘yes’ on the infrastructure sales tax idea,” said co-chair Deborah Frederickson. The group, comprised of…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s acting attorney general on Thursday signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug, a major policy shift long sought by advocates who said cannabis should never have been treated like heroin by the federal government. The order signed by Todd Blanche does not legalize marijuana for medical or recreational use under federal law….
photo credit – Enderlin Sheldon Fire Dept.SHELDON, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – The response was quick to a fire Monday night in Sheldon in southeastern North Dakota. Within minutes of the call, 18 firefighters the Enderlin-Sheldon Fire Dept. and eight EMS personnel were enroute. They had just completed a scheduled training session. The fire started on the outside of a building next…
