MINNEAPOLIS – The University of Minnesota will offer free or reduced tuition to many Native American students attending its five campuses starting next fall. The cost waiver program had previously been offered only at the Morris campus, but now will be expanded to all five campuses, to also include Duluth, Rochester, Crookston and the Twin Cities. Incoming freshmen and tribal…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — An MSUM graduate and bodybuilder fulfills a lifelong dream of owning a business. Brady Hand is the new owner of Kone’s Kreamery which is on the 1600 block of 45th Street South in Fargo. He sent the business a message on Facebook after seeing a closed sign on the door and eventually got an offer to…
FARGO (KVRR) – Sanford Health says out of approximately 9,800 employees who work in the Fargo region, 31 employees have left as a result of the company’s vaccine mandate. Vice-President and Medical Officer Dr. Doug Griffin says Sanford employees who don’t have an approved exemption or who haven’t started their vaccine series by today (Nov. 1) will be suspended for…
Cody FreitagFERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KVRR) — A Barrett, Minnesota man is sentenced to 19 years in prison for a deadly chase that ended up killing two people in Fergus Falls. As part of a plea agreement, Cody Freitag pleaded guilty to two counts of fleeing a police officer: resulting in death. Two counts of criminal vehicular homicide were dismissed. A…
MINNESOTA (KVRR) – Thirty years ago trick or treating and living in Minnesota turned into a survival event. The best way to describe the three days of snow that caused havoc in Minnesota three decades ago: uffda! And that goes for the hundreds of stories from it too. “This is a storm that we’ve never had this early. This is…
MINNESOTA (AP) — Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan has tested positive for a breakthrough case of COVID-19, she announced Saturday. Flanagan says she received the positive test after caring for her 8-year-old daughter Siobhan, who tested positive on Oct. 22. The lieutenant governor received the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine last spring. Flanagan said she and her husband, Tom, had been staying…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Minnesota State University Moorhead is raising awareness about AIDS with a series of speakers and informational displays. Tens of millions of people have died of AIDS-related causes across the world. Fargo-Moorhead has been no exception, with several people feeling the impact of lives lost due to HIV. MSUM is displaying five quilts from the AIDS National…
WASHINGTON – The Food and Drug Administration has paved the way for children ages 5 to 11 to get Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. The agency authorized the kid-size doses on Friday. They are just a third of the amount given to teens and adults. But there’s one more regulatory hurdle. Next week, advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
BILLINGS, Mont. – The Biden administration said Friday that industry regulators for the first time will begin analyzing greenhouse gas emissions from federal oil and gas leases on a national scale, as they prepare to hold lease sales in numerous Western states next year. The announcement from the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management came as officials released a report…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KVRR) – Gov. Tim Walz says COVID-19 vaccinations are up nearly 40% among Minnesotans 12-17 years old in the past week. During the first week of the “Kids Deserve a Shot” campaign, Walz says more than 2,200 Minnesotans 12-17 got their first COVID-19 vaccine dose, compared to just 1,600 the week before. “Every shot in the arm helps…
