FARGO (KFGO) – Fargo City Commissioner John Strand is proposing nearly $639,000 in budget reductions and cutting multiple positions as the commission works to approve the budget for next year. Mayor Tim Mahoney’s original budget proposal totaled $133 million. Earlier this month, the commission voted to eliminate the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Department and 4.2 positions at Fargo Cass Public Health. Now, Strand…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo Fire Department has suddenly and temporarily closed Fire Station 5 for reconstruction and renovation work. The work comes after staff at the station noticed shifting and cracks on the building five years ago. While they had been able to work and keep staff in, a recent engineering assessment determined the southern portion of the building…
Facebook/Beans Coffee BarFARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Beans Coffee Bar is closing one of its locations next week. In a post to Facebook, owners write that after 10 years at the Veterans Boulevard location, they have decided not to renew the lease. They call it a “tough decision, and one not made lightly.” They will continue to operate out of their…
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (KVRR) — New details about a shots fired incident that officers responded to this week in Devils Lake that sent a school into lockdown. Court documents show Joseph Gleason broke into his ex-wife’s house and demanded she give him a shotgun and ammo and threated to kill himself. Officers responded to his home in the 300 block…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — Some major improvements are in store for the Greenway in Grand Forks. The city has been awarded a $3.4 million grant to redevelop its recreational features. Grand Forks Greenway is just one of 54 projects in the entire country that have been awarded grants by the National Park Service. A total of $254 million in…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — UND is defying national trends and is seeing an increase in fall enrollment. The university has 15,019 students, around 850 more than last fall. It is the third highest total in the university’s history and marks the first time since 2013 that enrollment has surpassed 15,000 students. It’s worth noting that the number of new…
Lisa Tormaschy (Southwest Multi-County Corrections Center)DICKINSON, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – A Dickinson woman is charged with felony theft, accused of stealing over a million dollars from her employer. According to court records, Lisa Tormaschy was an office manager at Tooz Construction in Dickinson when the theft happened between 2010 and her arrest Tuesday. She is in the Southwest Multi-County Correction Center…
The Red River Women’s Clinic moved from Fargo to this location in Moorhead, Minnesota. (Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)(North Dakota Monitor) North Dakota’s abortion ban was officially repealed Thursday following a judgment entered by South Central District Court Judge Bruce Romanick. “The law as currently drafted takes away a woman’s fundamental rights to liberty and her fundamental right to pursue and…
FARGO — Sasha is one of the best-behaved kitties we’ve ever met in all 8 years of Pet Connections, and that’s really saying something, given her extremely tough start in life. Sasha came in to Far North Feline Rescue as a very small adult cat, under 7 pounds, with two kittens she’d recently given birth to, and shelters think she…
FARGO (KVRR) – Structural issues have forced the city of Fargo to close one of its seven fire stations until August, 2025. City officials say Fire Station 5, known as the West Acres Fire Station, needs significant reconstruction and renovation work due to shifting ground beneath the building. The closure is effective immediately. “After a detailed evaluation with engineering experts,…
