EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO/KNOX) – While the sale of recreational marijuana becomes legal in Minnesota on Aug. 1, it will not be legal yet in East Grand Forks. The city council on Wednesday voted unanimously in favor of a moratorium. City attorney Ron Galstad said the state law allows a city to do that for up to two years….
Fargo police are investigating after people near Essentia Health on 32nd Ave. S reported what they believed were gunshots Thursday evening. Officers responded shortly before 7:30. Officers were near an apartment building across the street east of Essentia near Ed Clapp Elementary School. A department spokesperson told KVRR Local News that those involved had left the scene. Police say Essentia…
MINNESOTA (KVRR) – A massive project is underway in lakes country, as the Minnesota Department of Transportation begins the work on Highway 34. The project is a 21-mile stretch between Osage and Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. “So this is just a reconstruct project, milling, overlay and the replacement of culverts,” said Aundie Curtiss, project engineer with MNDOT. “21 miles for a…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – A Moorhead woman is going after Delta Airlines through social media for apparently damaging her daughter’s electric wheelchair. Marisa Loerzel is calling on Delta Airlines to improve accommodations for passengers with disabilities to avoid similar incidents for other passengers. Her daughter, Addie has Spina Bifida and they both traveled to Maine where Addie participated in a…
BEMIDJI, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) – Nearly 50 residents of a federally subsidized apartment complex in Bemidji have until 4 p.m. Thursday to vacate the premises after inspections found serious structural issues. A city-issued evacuation order was given last Friday at Red Pine Estates which houses many elderly and disabled residents. At a recent city council meeting residents directed their anger at…
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KVRR) — It’s messy and smelly for the hard workers at an Otter Tail County Recycling Facility where people are dumping fish guts into recycling bins Otter Tail County officials say every summer people are tossing fish guts into their recycling bins. This year, the county is saying no more. They say the proper way to dispose…
FARGO, ND (KVRR) – Cyber security is always an importance. Especially when it comes to school districts and the private files on students. “Everything we do these days is on the internet. It’s online, it’s on the computer.” said Eric Erdman, the co-owner of Information Management Systems in Fargo. That was painfully obvious this week with the Minneapolis Public Schools…
GOODUE CO., Minn. (AP) — The bodies of three people who drowned in a southern Minnesota river are found by search crews after going missing over the Fourth of July weekend. The swimmers were part of a family gathering Monday night at Diamond Island on the Vermillion River, near the confluence with the Mississippi River, southeast of the Twin Cities….
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Tuesday night the sky was full of fireworks celebrating the 4th of July. But fire crews from Fargo, West Fargo and Moorhead were out and about battling fires in the metro. Fargo Police says they did have 98 calls yesterday in regards to fireworks, but no arrests or citations were issued. Moorhead said they dealt with…
Gage StevensonWATERTOWN, S.D. (KVRR-KWAT) – A Moorhead, Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to Second Degree Manslaughter in connection with the traffic death of a Watertown woman nearly four years ago. Twenty-year-old Gage Thatcher Stevenson was at the wheel of a car that was westbound on U.S. Highway 212 in Watertown on September 17, 2019, when he intentionally crossed over the…
