Minnesota News

Healthcare companies connecting with NDSU students at job fair

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — With a shortage of healthcare workers across the U.S., companies are becoming desperate and are looking to college students to help curb the workload. “We need everything. We have had a shortage of people who help clean up stuff and we’ve had to recruit that. We’ve a shortage of nurses right now, trying to get those…

What you need to know to prepare for Saturday’s Lashkowitz demolition

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — The Lashkowitz High Rise is getting ready for Saturday’s teardown in downtown Fargo. Officials say the team full of structure engineers are putting in shaped charges on the sides of the building and a small piece of dynamite at the bottom. Once the building implodes, the next project will be 110 units of affordable housing called…

Menahga school bus crash in Otter Tail County

OTTER TAIL COUNTY, Minn. (KVRR) — Authorities respond to a bus crash in Otter Tail County. The sheriff’s office says a Menahga school bus was on 470th Street at the County Road 19 intersection when it was hit by a truck pulling a livestock trailer shortly after 4 this afternoon. Both the bus and the truck ended up in the…

Why No Vikings vs Eagles Over-The-Air Broadcast Locally?

(KVRR/FOX21) — Many excited Minnesota Vikings fans are making plans to watch Thursday night’s game against the Philadelphia Eagles. And, because KVRR and FOX21 broadcasts so many football games all season, we are being asked if we are going to air the Vikings/Eagles game. Unfortunately, the answer is no. But it’s not our choice! We are not allowed to broadcast…

LIVE: Pet Connection: Meet Mechanic

FARGO — There’s really nothing practical about falling in love, but this dog has definitely mastered the mechanics of gaining your affections. Mechanic the mastiff-boxer mix comes to our studio and to 4 Luv of Dog rescue by way of the pound. He’s six years old and neutered, and has truly impeccable manners. As a matter of fact, in his…

White Earth, Minnesota man sentenced to 50 years for kidnapping in South Dakota

Ryan DegroatPIERRE, S.D. (KVRR) – A White Earth, Minnesota man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty, but mentally ill to First Degree Kidnapping. Ryan Degroat was arrested in March, 2022 for entering a home in Hecla, South Dakota, where he assaulted one person and then forced that person to drive them both out of town….