MOORHEAD, Minn. — More rolling blackouts are possible tonight until 10 and tomorrow morning until 10 in Moorhead. Moorhead Public Service was just notified of the potential. Due to the current widespread and extreme cold weather conditions, the Southwest Power Pool declared an Energy Emergency Alert Level 3 this morning. Generating capacity has dropped below the demand for electricity. Unexpected…
Southwest Power PoolMOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Moorhead Public Service has been notified that the rolling blackouts will be discontinued until further notice. “MPS apologizes for the short notice, or no notice, that was given earlier this morning, as staff was notified at 9:20 AM that the blackouts would begin occurring at 9:50 a.m. MPS would like to thank its customers…
CLEARWATER CO., Minn. — A fire on Valentine’s Day destroys a house on Stockyard Road, about 14 miles south of Bagley, Minnesota. Crews responding just before midnight last night to the house owned by Allan and Sue Dahl, who were not home. They arrived to the find the house fully engulfed in flames. It is considered a total loss. Two…
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (KVRR) – Former longtime Minnesota Democratic Congressman Collin Peterson says he doesn’t miss working in Washington and has no plans of going back. Peterson spoke with KVRR in one of his first interviews since he lost his reelection bid to Republican Rep. Michelle Fischbach. Peterson was among just two House Democrats who voted against the impeachment of…
WADENA CO., Minn. — Firefighters battle a house fire south of Nimrod, Minnesota in -23 degree weather Saturday night. A Wadena County Sheriff’s deputy arrived to find the house’s roof engulfed in flames. The person living there got out safely and told the deputy the fire started in an attic space near the wood stove pipe. The fire quickly spread…
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. — A man and 2-year-old boy are in a burn unit in St. Paul after a house fire in Fergus Falls Sunday afternoon. The man has been identified as 26-year-old William Anderson. Smoke was coming from the upper floor windows of the house when police and fire crews arrived. Authorities say the cause of the fire was…
CLAY COUNTY, Minn. – A steel building filled with camper trailers burns Monday morning southeast of Barnesville in Clay County. Barnesville Fire Chief Michael Stetz says the a 40-by-80 foot steel building was fully engulfed in flames and the roof had fallen in when firefighters arrived on the scene. A Clay County deputy reported the fire around 2:30 a.m. Monday….
Doctors say they’re facing increasing threats of violence for refusing to prescribe opioids or trying to wean patients off the addictive painkillers. The issue was underscored by this weeks shooting at a Buffalo, Minnesota clinic that left one person dead and four injured. Authorities say 67-year-old Gregory Ulrich was angry about his medical treatment and had threatened a similar mass…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — As former president Trump is acquitted of charges in causing insurrection at the U.S. capitol. A Political science expert breaks down what’s next for the country. “You had a president that two times activated the party in the majority of the house, the Democratic party that they felt compelled by his actions to go through impeachment…
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (KVRR) — To celebrate 25 years of the Polar Fest Plunge tradition, one celebrity with ties to North Dakota is bearing the cold to help raise funds for the Boys & Girls Club of Detroit Lakes. Normally, the event is open to the public where people gather around a frozen lake to watch plungers jump into an…
