Minnesota News

LIVE: Something to Cheer About for Super Bowl Week

FARGO — We’ve got something to cheer about here on KVRR Local News: it’s less than a week to go until Super Bowl Sunday. So we got some help cheering from the experts. The students, parents and coach at North Dakota Elite, North Dakota’s first cheerleading gym, joined the Morning Show to demonstrate some of their amazing skills, and teach…

House Burns Down in Otter Tail County

Investigators believe it was an electrical fire.

near AMOR TOWNSHIP, MN – Several people are looking for a new place to lay their heads after a fire in Otter Tail County on Thursday completely destroyed their home. The Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office received a call just before 4:30 p.m. on January 30 from a resident in rural Amor Township, which is west of Otter Tail Lake….

8th Annual Frostival Festival Begins In The FM Area

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — It’s the eighth annual Frostival festival in the FM metro area. This year’s Frostival has nine days full of activities ranging from coloring, hot cocoa, hockey, and more. Those events can obviously take place either indoors and outdoors – so they’ll keep you enjoying the winter weather that is set to get chillier over the coming…

LIVE: We Like Big Trucks (and We Cannot Lie)

FARGO — They may look big and bold and beastly. But every one of the Monster Trucks you can see at this weekend’s Monster Jam 2025 at the Fargodome is also a labor of love. Coty Saucier, for example, isn’t just “Dragon’s” driver. The self-described gearhead started as a mechanic before moving into the driver’s seat. Between his athletic stunts…

“Bowling While Blind” Raises Awareness, Funds

The event sought to educate the public on vision impairments in a fun and interactive way.

The North Dakota Association of the Blind receives a $10,000 check from the Lions Club ahead of Giving Hearts Day.MOORHEAD, MN – The sound of the ball hitting the pins echoed the same. But how it was delivered? Quite different. “They’ll have a rail system where the person can follow the rail and use that as a guide to their…

Parents of Guest Skater at Moorhead Ice Show Died in DC Plane Crash

Maxim Naumov performed as a guest skater in the Moorhead Ice Show in 2023 and 2024

MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — “When we originally thought that maybe he was on that flight with his parents we were everybody was pretty, you know, frazzled and upset,” said Dawn Franklin, Coach for Red River Valley Figure Skating Club. On Wednesday, an American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas collided midair with an Army helicopter, just seconds before it was to…

LIVE: Pet Connection: Meet Steve Holt

MOORHEAD — If you’re a fan of the show “Arrested Development,” you’ll probably remember the high-energy, athletic character “Steve Holt” from the show. If you’re a fan of corgis — and who isn’t these days — then you’ll be thrilled to meet his namesake, the corgi-mix puppy Steve Holt, who joined Pet Connection with the help of his 4 Luv…

West Virginia couple convicted of forced labor, human trafficking of kids adopted in Minn.

Donald Lantz, left, speaks with his attorney John Balenovich as his wife Jeanne Whitefeather, right, leaves the courtroom in Kanawha County Circuit Court in Charleston, W.Va. on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (Christopher Millette/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP)CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia couple accused of neglect and forced labor involving their adopted children was convicted by a jury on Wednesday after eight…