MOORHEAD, Minn. — President Trump’s tariffs on international trade from countries like Mexico and China and the European Union are hitting American farmers hard. His $12 billion farmer bailout is what many agriculture experts say is a band aid. “It’s a short–term bandage where we may be bleeding long in agriculture. In the long run, it really doesn’t help our global…
FARGO, N.D. — The United Way of Cass-Clay needs the community’s help to collect 6,000 backpacks for their School Supply Drive. They’re just 500 backpacks short of their goal. United Way also needs more donations of scissors and college-ruled notebooks. This is the 20th year of the school supply drive. Last year, United Way collected 58-hundred backpacks for students from 65…
It’s a couple of months away still, but behind the scenes, the forces that make the Golden Drive for Homeless Kids are gathering steam. Sue Baron established the charity that brings help, funds, toys, educational materials, and other resources to the area’s homeless children a few years back with just a dream and a crayon. Now, her fundraising event has…
Want to meet a bird who bucks expectations? How about Buck — a bird who meows like a cat? And tells you, “Buck’s in charge” — a pretty surprising assertion from a little buckaroo who only weighs a few ounces. But with a personality this big in a package this little, it shouldn’t surprise us at all. Buck came to…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — The U.S. Navy is working with kids and teens to grow an interest in STEM related fields in the metro. Sailors are working closely during Navy Week with the College for Kids & Teens at MSUM. Kids in this program have the opportunity to work with a variety of STEM related labs such as Lego Robotics. The USS…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — The Clay County Sheriff’s Office and the Moorhead Police Department are embarking on a new journey. KVRR’s Jessie Cohen got a sneak peak of the new Joint Law Enforcement Center and the New Correctional Facility. The Clay County Sheriff’s Office and the Moorhead Police Department are merging into one building. “We work so well together, this is…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — The Moorhead Blues have found their groove lately… literally. “We started the dance parties last year and when you’re winning it’s a lot of fun,” Blues first baseman, Sterling Haphey said. This year the squad still discos in the dugout, but they’ve added one thing and there’s nothing ‘despicable’ about it. “The pride and joy of our team,”…
Patrol officers work with the public every day to make our streets safer, and the people who oversee them see and hear a lot. Lt. Mark Empting started his career as a patrol officer himself, and now handles the patrol division for the Clay County Sheriff’s office. And now he’d like a step up, to Sheriff. Clay County is set…
Keeping track of people on their way out of the corrections system is a full-time job with significant consequences for our safety here in the Red River Valley. And that safety has been in the hands of Mark Hendrickson for several years. Now, he’s looking to take over the post of Clay County Sheriff as longtime law enforcement leader Bill…
FARGO, N.D. — You can make a guitar from almost any object or material. A Minnesota man is taking his love for the instrument and tuning it into a hobby he can share with others. KVRR’s Danielle Church has more. It was after he retired that 60–year–old Jeff Swenson’s itch for music only got worse. So he solved it with a…
