FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A contract has been awarded to build a ring levee to protect the people of Oxbow, Hickson and Bakke from flood waters. It’s part of the larger $3.2 billion FM Flood Diversion project. The $12.8 million contract for the levee was awarded to Hendrickson Transportation of Hamburg, Iowa. It will protect the towns from the risk…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — BlackHawk is kicking off Ribfest this summer in Fargo. They will take the stage in the Fargodome parking lot on Wednesday, June 5. They’ll be followed by American Idol winner Chayce Beckham on the 6th. EVE 6 on the 7th and Steven Adler of Guns N’ Roses on Saturday, June 8. The music is just another…
(AP) — A man accused of recruiting the driver in a human smuggling operation has been arrested, more than two years after a family of four from India froze to death trying to enter the U.S. from Canada, authorities said. Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 28, was arrested Wednesday in Chicago on a warrant issued in September, charging him with transportation of an…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — Gov. Doug Burgum testifies in the trial over North Dakota’s claim that the federal government owes the state $38 million in damages from the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. He said “Instead of evicting protesters from federal lands, the U.S. government enabled and encouraged protesters to use Corps land as a home base to launch their often…
(BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) – The public may never get a satisfying explanation as to why federal agencies refused North Dakota additional support during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, former Gov. Jack Dalrymple said Friday. “Bureaucracy is a great place to hide,” he said after wrapping up testimony in U.S. District Court in Bismarck. North Dakota is asking a…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — People in Grand Forks are forced from their homes after a fire in the apartments above Sledster’s Food and Brew. It happened Saturday morning around 11. Fire crews arrived to find smoke coming from the top floor of the building and located the fire in one of the apartments on the third floor. The apartment…
FARGO (KVRR) – He’s a bone marrow donor from Grand Forks on his way next week to Washington D.C. to talk to Congress about changing our organ donation laws for the better. But first, he stopped by KVRR-TV to explain why. Cole Reimann is a young dad. He signed up in 2019 to become a bone marrow donor after hearing…
BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) – The Dakota Access Pipeline protests would not have mushroomed in size had law enforcement received better support from the federal government, a county sheriff tasked with managing the demonstrations testified. Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said during a federal trial that U.S. agencies ignored multiple requests from North Dakota for assistance during the protests…
Zeferino RangelFARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – In April of 2020, Jamestown Police issued a warning to the public about a violent, high-risk sex offender who was living in the community. Not long after that, the offender, 52-year-old Zeferino Carlos Rangel, was hired by the local Subway sandwich shop in Jamestown to work as a supervisor on the closing shift. Two years later,…
WASHINGTON (CNN) – The Federal Communications Commission has announced a proposal to create a new emergency alert for missing and endangered people. The agency said the Emergency Alert System, which delivers emergency information over television and radio, would “provide timely alerts to galvanize public attention to missing native and indigenous persons, as well as other groups, and build on efforts…
