Minnesota News

Mobile mammogram team will travel to rural communities

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Essentia Health is bringing the opportunity to get mammograms to rural communities Starting today, their mobile mammography team will begin making regular visits to Ada, Aurora, Deer River, Deerwood, Hibbing, Pine River and Staples in Minnesota, as well as Valley City in North Dakota. Contact your Essentia Health clinic to find out when the team will…

Midco completes fiber build along Highway 10 in Minnesota

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (KVRR) — Midco announces the completion of its extensive fiber build along Highway 10 in Minnesota. The company says the project brings high-speed internet access to more than 10,000 homes and businesses to Audubon, Lake Park, Hawley and Detroit Lakes. A $4 million investment will also provide Midco’s fiber network to more than 17-hundred residents and businesses…

1 Victim Clinging to Life After South Fargo Shooting

FARGO — One person is hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after being shot in a south side neighborhood Sunday night. Fargo Police Sergeant Chris Mathson says officers responded to the 800 block of 10th Street S. shortly before 6:30 p.m. on a disturbance report. They found one person there wounded by gunshot. That person was taken to the hospital. Police detained…

3 injured in alcohol-related crash near East Grand Forks

EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. (KVRR-KFGO) – Three people were injured in an alcohol-related crash in northwest Minnesota Sunday. The crash happened at the intersection of Highways 2 and 220 just southeast of East Grand Forks around 4:30 p.m. The state patrol says 54-year-old Vicente Gomez of San Antonio, Texas was driving an SUV south when the vehicle crashed into an…

Summit pipeline decision in Minnesota could come Dec. 12

Summit Carbon Solutions plans to build a 2,500-mile network of CO2 pipelines across the Midwest to capture carbon produced by ethanol plants and then sequester it underground in North Dakota. (Courtesy of Summit Carbon Solutions)FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (Jeff Beach – North Dakota Monitor) An administrative law judge report recommends that Minnesota approve a small segment of the massive Summit Carbon…

Red Raven hosts first Fargo Mini Zine Fest

MOORHEAD, MINN. (KVRR) – Artists, writers and independent journalists got a spotlight this weekend at the Fargo Mini Zine Fest. The fest was hosted at the Red Raven, and featured 11 vendors selling their zines, comics and more. A zine is a self-published, non-commercial print that is typically made by hand or in small batches.  The local producers at the…

Hunter Shot North of Perley, Minnesota, Non-Life Threatening Injury

NORMAN CO., Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — A man was shot in a hunting accident north of Perley, Minnesota. First responders were called just before 10:45 a.m. Saturday. The 37-year-old hunter had a single gunshot wound. Norman County Sheriff Ben Fall says the man was taken by ambulance to a Fargo hospital with a non-life threatening injury. Categories: Local News, Minnesota News…