North Dakota News

American Crystal Sugar reports record harvest

MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – American Crystal Sugar Company says the 2024 sugar beet harvest was a record breaker. The company says an estimated 15 billion sugar beets were harvested this year. Other harvest-related records were also shattered. American Crystal says October 6 was a record piling day with 1,223,362 tons piled. The previous record was set on October 19, 2021….

LIVE: Learning About the Strange and Unusual (in Pets)

FARGO — Are you looking for a learning experience this weekend? Perhaps something to set the mood for spooky season? Or maybe you’ll just meet an unexpected new best friend. That’s what can happen if you check out the annual Fargo Exotic Pet Expo at the Red River Valley Fairgrounds this Saturday, October 26th. They feature vendors, animal experts, and…

Man who caused thousands of dollars worth of damage to internet, cable lines in Fargo sentenced

Timothy Windels (Cass Co. jail)FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – A man who caused thousands of dollars in damage to internet and cable lines in Fargo in August has been sentenced to 180 days in jail. Timothy Windels pleaded guilty and admitted to using an angle grinder to cut Midco lines at seven locations around Fargo causing significant outages to residential and business customers….

Man dead in police-involved shooting in Minot, officers on leave

MINOT, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – Officers from the Minot Police Department were dispatched to a residence in southwest Minot following a reported domestic disturbance Friday morning. The department says central dispatch received a call at 7 a.m. with sounds of an argument between a male and a female. During the call, dispatch overheard threats of a firearm. Officers responded to the…

North Dakota seeks to keep abortion ban while appeal proceeds at state Supreme Court

BISMARCK, N.D. (Mary Steurer – North Dakota Monitor) The Attorney General’s Office has asked the North Dakota Supreme Court to keep the state’s abortion ban in effect while it mulls over a lower court’s decision finding the law unconstitutional. The ban outlawed abortion except when a pregnancy poses a serious health risk to the mother, and in cases of rape…

UPDATE: Two people in custody in connection to Grand Forks murder investigation

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) – Grand Forks Police are investigating a murder. UPDATE (At 2:27 p.m. Friday): The 49-year-old man who, police say, died of suspicious injuries has been identified as Anthony Kiehl of Grand Forks. According to a release from the Grand Forks Police Dept., two people have been taken into custody as persons of interest. Their identities are…

Metro Flood Diversion Authority To Offer Executive Director Job to Jason Benson

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Jason Benson of West Fargo has been chosen to become the next executive director of the Metro Flood Diversion Authority. He was selected by the board out of a pool of three finalists for the job. Benson is the county engineer for the Cass County Highway Department, a role he has held since 2011. He has…

Grand Farm Highlights Space and Agriculture Advancements at 4th Annual Space Ag Conference

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — Grand Farm hosts its fourth annual Space Ag conference focusing on advancements in agriculture technology for both space and Earth. The conference came together when Grand Farm and the head of Plant Sciences at NASA worked to discover ways to find sustainability and feed people on Mars. With the topic becoming popular, Grand Farm brought…