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National Weather Service Presents Spring and Summer Outlook

(KVRR) — National Weather Service in Grand Forks presented its spring and summer outlook with concerns about drought conditions persisting through the next several months. The concerns come up after the cold winter months failed to produce much moisture in the form of snow. With the temperatures also being above normal in previous years, drought has increased throughout the state….

FM Chamber urges no vote on daylight saving time proposal

FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – The Fargo Moorhead West Fargo Chamber is urging people to contact members of the North Dakota Senate’s Local Government Committee and urge them to vote against a bill to eliminate daylight saving time. The Chamber says if passed and signed into law, the bill would create unnecessary burdens on cities, disrupt standard business operations and impose significant…

Award Winning Bluegrass Artist Billy Strings To Play SCHEELS Arena

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Two-time Grammy award-winning bluegrass artist Billy Strings is coming to Fargo. Strings will perform at SCHEELS Arena on Tuesday, August 12 as part of his 2025 headlining tour. He has become well known for his genre-defying sound and electrifying live shows. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. at Ticketmaster.com. Categories: Entertainment, Local News,…

Fargo Man Sentenced For Hit-And-Run Last June

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A Fargo man is sentenced to two years in prison for a hit-and-run crash that seriously injured two people in south Fargo last June. 25-year-old Nicholas Tschosik denied driving the car and refused sobriety and chemical tests but eventually pleaded guilty to charges including a second DUI charge in seven years along with reckless endangerment. Witnesses…

Defense asks judge to keep Holmberg out of prison

FARGO (KVRR) – An attorney for a former state senator who pleaded guilty to traveling to a foreign country to have commercial sex with minor boys is asking a federal judge to impose a sentence that does not require going to prison. Ray Holmberg of Grand Forks will be sentenced March 26 in U.S. District Court in Fargo. Holmberg’s attorney,…

UPDATE: UND Police identify owner of pickup involved in hit-and-run

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – The University of North Dakota Police Department has identified the owner of a pickup involved in a hit-and-run. UND Police were looking for the owner after the pickup struck an elementary-age child near 39th Street and 6th Avenue N. in Grand Forks. The Department says the investigation is still active and ongoing and anyone who witnessed the…

North Dakota attorney general calls for more prison time; opponents say spend more on police

Colby Braun, center, director of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, listens March 24, 2025, to testimony on a bill related to criminal sentences. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — North Dakota’s attorney general is backing a bill that will increase the time offenders spend behind bars because he says the state criminal justice system…