ROLLAG, Minn. (KVRR) – It’s been happening for 69 years. The Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion is an event farmers and machinery fans look forward to every Labor Day Weekend. The theme every year is to show how people used steam to get the job done. The event is full of hot air. The good kind. At the end of…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — Kennedy, Minnesota native Dr. Josh Deere is named the new president of Altru. Deere has been medical director of primary care for seven years and most recently the interim chief medical officer since February. That is when Dr. Steven Weiser was forced out as Altru’s president. Deere earned his medical degree from UND and completed…
ST. PAUL (AP/KVRR) — Minnesota Nurses Association announces 15,000 nurses are going to go on strike in 10 days. The nurses will strike for three days at 16 hospitals across seven different hospital systems in the Twin Cities and Duluth, as well as, Moose Lake and Superior, Wisconsin. The strike is the largest nurses’ strike in U.S. history, according to…
MEDINA, Minn. — Minnesota-based Polaris has issued a “stop riding and stop selling” order affecting over a quarter-million of its snowmobiles. The company warns of a fire hazard from degraded fuel in gas tanks, particularly after extended storage. Polaris says the problem has resulted in 30 gas tank ruptures, 16 fires, and one reported injury. Affected are some Matryx models…
NEAR EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. (KVRR) – An Oklee man is in the hospital after being struck by a vehicle in rural East Grand Forks. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office responded to 340th Avenue and 110th Street Southwest around 2:20 Wednesday afternoon. Forty-six-year-old Donald Howard was loading a trailer when he was struck by a vehicle driven by 41-year-old Kristina…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KVRR) — A Red Lake, Minnesota man is sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for aggravated sexual assault. According to court documents, on November 7th, 2020, 30-year-old John Sayers offered to give a ride to his victim. Instead of taking her to her destination, he took her to a camper near where he worked and raped…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – City and State officials are teaming up to provide needed affordable housing in Fargo. It starts with the high rise being demolished late next summer or early fall. “It’s the Lashkowitz Tower. 248 apartment units. The low cost apartments for seniors and it served the city well since 1971,” North Dakota Senator John Hoeven said. It’s…
MOSCOW (AP) – Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, has died at 91. The Central Clinical Hospital said in a statement that Gorbachev died Tuesday after a long illness. No other details were…
UNITED STATES – Twenty football players with ties to North Dakota State, University of North Dakota, Concordia College, Shanley High School and Detroit Lakes High School find out their fates as NFL teams had to cut down to a 53 man roster Tuesday afternoon. The players that made their team’s roster includes the following former Bison: Ben Ellefson – Vikings…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — Two people are arrested when a traffic stop turns into a chase that began shortly after 1 a.m. on the Main Avenue Bridge, headed into Moorhead then back into Fargo. Police say the car eventually came to a stop and the passenger, 32-year-old Skyler Poitra who has no permanent address, ran. He was quickly caught by…
