FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – Governor Doug Burgum is asking people to donate $1, and in return that person would receive a $20 gift card. A tactic that has never been used before to get donors according to a local political science professor. “No one has ever said give me a dollar and I’ll give you $20,” said Barbara Headrick, a…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A late afternoon thunderstorm brings hail to the metro and some minor flash flooding. Large hail is to blame for damage from Mapleton to the F-M area as that severe thunderstorms moved through the region. These snapshots are out of West Fargo where you can see hail stones from pea size to about quarter size. The…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — The lieutenant for a Mexican Drug Cartel pleads guilty in Fargo to leading a major drug trafficking enterprise. 45-year-old Juan Sillas-Rocha of Tijuana also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder in furtherance of the enterprise. He was indicted by a North Dakota grand jury way back in 2011. In September of last year after 11…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — Fargo police arrest 19-year-old Chad Wollery for a shooting incident near Essentia Health and Ed Clapp Elementary School last week. Wollery was arrested in the 5000 block of 28th Avenue South. Police were called to an area near Essentia last Thursday night on a report of shots fired, but those involved had fled by the time…
MOORHEAD — The sun is shining, the river is beckoning, and the time is right for a race. River Keepers is holding its annual kayak and canoe race “Race The Red” this coming Monday, July 17th. So far, the group’s had to postpone it twice this season because heavy rains have made the river swell and currents fast. That’s been…
UPDATE: The man who was found dead in a vehicle in a field near Edgeley earlier this week has been identified. North Dakota Highway Patrol says 59-year-old Marek Kaluza’s vehicle left Highway 281 sometime on Wednesday. Kaluza was unresponsive when located by a passerby just before 10 o’clock that night. First responders arrived and pronounced him dead at the scene….
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (KVRR) — A former Jamestown priest will avoid jail if he completes 50 hours of community service after pleading guilty to sexual assault. The plea deal for Neil Pfeifer included a charge of sexual exploitation by a therapist being dismissed. A trial on the charges was supposed to begin today in Jamestown. He was sentenced to 360 days…
ARTHUR, N.D. (KVRR) — A new grant program will hand out cash to grocery stores across rural North Dakota towns to increase food access. The new grant program is part of a North Dakota Senate bill which passed in April that allocates one million dollars to preserve rural grocery stores. The North Dakota Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives started a…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Overcrowding is still an issue for many animal shelters across the country. In fact, the issue is so bad that dogs are dying because shelters do not have the capacity or resources to help all of these animals. This is also true for our local animal shelters and pounds as they are desperately pleading for help….
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — FM Trailbuilders are a group of over fifty volunteers maintaining trails in the F-M region. They manage trails by mowing them, picking up fallen branches, and doing other maintenance work. “We monitor three trail systems, two of them are located in Moorhead, one at MB Johnson Park, another in the central part of the town at…
