WADENA, Minn. (KVRR) – Firefighters fight flames at a Wadena home twice in around 11 hours. The first call came in Monday around 4:15 PM on the 10000 block of Mohawk Street. The Wadena Fire Department says crews saw flames coming out of an attached garage. Firefighters were able to get the flames out before they spread to the home….
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR)- The RedHawks drop three straight to Kansas City Monarchs and lose the West Division Title. It was a special regular season run but they’ve been saying all year, this is the position they expect to be in. Several players came back with a bad taste in their mouths after last years championship lost, the journey to redemption…
MINNESOTA & NORTH DAKOTA (KVRR) – On this Labor Day, what are some local labor laws and how do they impact us? Minnesota’s minimum wage law is unique because it goes up each year with inflation. Wages rise 2.5 percent from this year in The Land of 10,000 Lakes. This year, someone with a minimum wage job from a large…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP/KVRR) – Police say one person was wounded in the leg during a shooting at the Minnesota State Fair. Police say the person who was shot was taken to a hospital. The shooting occurred about 10 p.m. near the entrance to the Midway. It led authorities to close the fair about 10:20 p.m., or 40 minutes early….
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Two crashes in two days at the tri-level interchange in Fargo, with one person dead. North Dakota Highway Patrol has identified the victim of Saturday’s crash as 33-year-old Zachery Noble of West Fargo. Noble left I-29 and hit a concrete support pillar for I-94. He was pronounced dead at the scene around 3 p.m. Saturday. Sunday…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — There is one fewer Dairy Queen in the FM metro. The restaurant at the Shoppes at Osgood at the corner of 45th Street and 40th Avenue South in Fargo has abruptly closed. A sign on the door said it all: “This location is closed”. A social media post says the operators were unable “to come to…
AUDUBON, MINN. (KVRR) — Early September means there’s no better time to start picking out apples! The Gottenborg Apple Orchard, located off of Highway 10 near Audubon is hosting an event for the community where people can get apple juice and potentially cider for free. On September 10th, they will press more than 16 hundred pounds of apples with a goal…
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…
