FARGO (KVRR) – The Cass County Highway Department says County Highway 17 between 52nd Avenue South and 64th Avenue South near Horace is scheduled to reopen on Tuesday. The road will be reopened after five months of construction. Phase one of the project involved building a roundabout at the intersection of 64th Avenue South and County Highway 17, which was completed…
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota lawmakers were already scrambling to fill a giant hole in state government operations left by a surprising state Supreme Court ruling that voided a major budget bill, and their job got even tougher this week when the court issued a new ruling rejecting a request to give officials more time to deal with the…
Ruby slippers. (FBI)MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man charged with the museum heist of a pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the “The Wizard of Oz” pleaded guilty Friday, pulling back the curtain on a whodunit mystery dating back 18 years. Terry Jon Martin, 76, was indicted in May on one count of theft of a major artwork….
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — If you’re looking for an escape from reality for a weekend ValleyCon has something for you. ValleyCon is excited to be back for its 48th year with some new elements to show off. “So it’s just one of those things you need a release valve once in a while we think of it as Mardi Gras…
CROOKSTON, Minn. (KVRR) – A dive team is looking for a vehicle that reportedly drove into a river in Polk County, Minnesota early Friday morning. The Sheriff’s Office says deputies and Crookston Police responded to the intersection of Houston Avenue and South Broadway in Crookston around 2:20 a.m. A witness told them a vehicle drove off the road near the…
WHAPETON, N.D. (KVRR) – The public helps authorities find a suspect in a hit-and-run crash that left a woman with life-threatening injuries. North Dakota Highway Patrol says the crash happened around 7:40 Thursday night in the 400 block of 11th Avenue South in Wahpeton. A pickup hit a 20-year-old woman walking on the south side of the road. The driver…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – The center is named after long time professor in the health science department, Dr. Ted Heimarck. Concordia Colleges President Colin Irvine said, “Behind me is a building that exists because he existed and that speaks to the impact he had on people that was so profound and so powerful that they’re willing to give their resources there…
WAHPETON, N.D. (KVRR) — Law enforcement is looking for driver of a pickup that a female pedestrian near the Wahpeton airport and fled. That woman has life threatening injuries. It happened around 7:40 p.m. Be on the lookout for a dark colored, ¾ – 1 ton pickup with a loud exhaust. The pickup fled eastbound on 11th Ave South and…
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) House Majority LeaderWASHINGTON (AP/CNN) — Republican Steve Scalise ended his bid to become House speaker late Thursday after hardline holdouts refused to back the party’s nominee, throwing the GOP majority into deeper chaos with the chamber unable to function. Scalise told GOP colleagues at a closed-door evening meeting of his decision and pointedly declined to announce…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Essentia Health is looking to fill a number of positions so they’re hosting a hiring event. It will be held on Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 4 pm. in the Grand Garden Ballroom at the Hilton Garden Inn in Fargo. Essentia Health-Fargo is hiring respiratory therapists, radiologic and surgical technologists, nutrition services, EMTs, environmental services, RNs,…
