FARGO — From corndogs to mini doughnuts, the Fargo Food Truck Festival has it all. For the second year in a row the festival is at the Red River Valley Fairgrounds, which gives the festival extra space for all of that tasty food. Throughout the weekend you can enjoy around twenty vendors. Some of the food trucks are returning and…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – There is a lot of excitement in the air, as they continue the renovation project on the Bell Tower. Bell Bank has been in the process to remodel the tower that sits off of Main Ave. The tower was built 50 years ago and was in need of a major face lift. “Really nice to see…
Ulen, Minn. (KVRR) — After eight decades, a decorated World War II hero is finally coming home to Ulen. The Army is returning the remains of Private First Class John Opgrand. He survived the Baatan death march but died in a prison camp in the Philippines. He was awarded several medals including the Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and the Prisoner…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — About fifty MSUM faculty members gathered for an informational picket over the contract battle between Teamsters Local 320 and the Minnesota State University system. Administrative faculty from admissions, athletics, and international studies showed up to picket. The employees who marched either took vacation or a lunch break for it. Event coordinators say the main goal is…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — Grand Forks School Board reviews a complaint about six books in school libraries. The board agreed with a committee recommendation that the books remain, though not all decisions were unanimous. Grand Forks County Commission recently received another complaint about two books. The State’s Attorney referred the complaint to police, and it was determined that no…
This week’s pet comes to us from the Humane Society of the Lakes in Detroit Lakes, and he’s had some significant suffering in his life. The coonhound mix came in from animal control with a couple of other dogs, and Jethro had a noticeable limp. Rescue workers took him to the vet, where they discovered the 11-year-old coonhound mix had…
FARGO — She has a job a lot of folks would love to have, could they but figure out how to get it: Darley Newman gets to travel and get paid to talk about it on TV. And now, the host of the PBS show “Travels with Darley is in Fargo and profiling the many treasures of Eastern North Dakota….
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Minneapolis man is sentenced to 17 years in prison with 5 supervised release for Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances and Money Laundering Conspiracy inside Grand Forks County Jail. Fifty-seven-year-old Timothy Eason had been arrested on state drug charges and was being held in Grand Forks. From October 2021 to February 2022, Eason arranged shipments of…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — Olympic silver medal winner Virgil Hill is getting the North Dakota Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award. Hill is a retired five-time professional boxing champion and member of both the National Boxing Hall of Fame and the International Boxing Hall of Fame. He won his Olympic medal in 1984. Hill was raised in Grand Forks and Williston….
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Cavalier man is sentenced to 29 years in prison for possession of child pornography and failure to register as a sex offender. Thirty-five-year-old Cody O’Hara was discovered living at his girlfriend’s home in Moorhead after he wasn’t found at his registered address in Fargo. When authorties examined his cellphone, they found nearly 500 images and…
