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LIVE: Taking The Polar Plunge For Special Olympics Minnesota

Today is the day more than 100 people take the Polar Plunge for Special Olympics Minnesota

April 20, 2023

Site Staff,

MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Today is the day more than 100 people take the plunge for Special Olympics Minnesota. That’s KVRR’s Adam Ladwig doing his “Polar Plunge” live on the morning show Thursday. Special Olympics Minnesota is celebrating 50 years this year and 25 years of the Polar Plunge. Today’s plunge at MSUM was the first one ever in Moorhead….

Burgum signs bill limiting trans health care

April 20, 2023

KVRR Staff,

BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) – North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has signed a bill into law that imposes strict restrictions on transgender health care and certain types of gender-affirming care to people younger than 18. Gender-affirming care for minors has been available in the U.S. for more than a decade, but it has increasingly come under scrutiny in many conservative legislatures….

Transformer Starts On Fire After Crash Outside Icon Sports Arena in Grand Forks

April 19, 2023

KVRR Staff,

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO/KNOX) – A fire started Wednesday afternoon when a vehicle ran into a transformer outside ICON Sports Center in south Grand Forks.According to officials, at about 3:45 p.m., the vehicle and transformer caught fire due to the crash. The transformer is about 20 feet from the arena. Police say the driver, 89-year-old Norma Haley of Grand Fork,…

Some local record shops worried about rising prices of vinyl records

April 19, 2023

Site Staff,

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A small business owner in Moorhead addresses a growing number of complaints about the rising cost of vinyl records. Brady Bredell, the owner of Mother’s, says while record companies continue to raise prices for distributors, profits of local record shops are shrinking. “Universal, Sony and Warner are the three big companies that control 70% of the…

Harwood Prepares for Potentially record-breaking river levels on Sheyenne River

April 19, 2023

KVRR Staff,

HARWOOD, N.D. (KVRR) –The spring melt has led to rising flood waters causing several roads closures across the F-M region. Rising waters have impacted some rural rivers in Cass County. “We have three rivers, which are all expected to crest at approximately the same time. We have the Rush, the Sheyenne River, and the Red River. The one we are…

Fargo’s Approval Voting System Lives On After State Senate Fails To Override Veto

April 19, 2023

KVRR Staff,

BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — North Dakota Senate fails to override Gov. Doug Burgum’s veto of the approval voting ban. Fargo will be able to continue using the voting method in its city elections. Voters passed the voting method through a ballot measure in 2018. The House overrode the governor’s veto last week but the Senate fell four votes short of…

Gov. Walz gives his second State of the State Address

April 19, 2023

Alison Voorhees,

ST. PAUL, Minn. (KVRR) — Governor Walz highlights the work already done for the state of Minnesota in the past three months of his second term. The governor gave his second State of the State Address in the Minnesota House Chamber. Former Gov. Mark Dayton was in attendance. Walz talked about the importance of making the state the best place…

Sanford announces All-Star Maris Celebrity golf lineup at Swing Training

April 19, 2023

Site Staff,

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Pro wrestling champ Brock Lesnar, Vikings tight end Ben Ellefson and baseball greats Ken Griffey Senior and Goose Gossage are among those who will play in the annual Roger Maris Celebrity Golf tournament. Sanford Health announcing the lineup during the kickoff of the inaugural Swing Training fundraiser at Suite Shots in South Fargo. Teams of up…

North Dakota’s 6-week abortion bill becomes veto-proof

April 19, 2023

KVRR Staff,

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota state senators overwhelmingly passed a bill Wednesday that would ban abortion at six weeks of pregnancy, even in cases of rape or incest. The bill has passed the Senate and House with veto-proof majorities, so it could become law without Republican Gov. Doug Burgum’s approval. It would be one of the strictest abortion bans in…

Cando Woman Identified After Fatal Crash Into Flooded Ditch

April 19, 2023

TJ Nelson,

TOWNER CO., N.D.(KVRR) — A Cando, North Dakota woman who died in a flooded ditch is identified as 54-year-old Dawn Lecy-Nadeau. Highway Patrol says she lost control of her vehicle on Highway 66 around 7:45 Sunday morning. Lecy-Nadeau’s vehicle veered into the north ditch, rolled and came to rest on its roof in the flooded ditch, where she died. The…