FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — If you guessed Lit as the final act for Ribfest, you nailed it! Last week, three of the four acts for the annual bbq extravaganza were announced with a teaser picture of the final band. It was Lit. They’ll take the stage on the final night of Ribfest on Saturday, June 10. The other entertainers include…
West Fargo’s longtime city administrator says she was asked to leave her position. At the city commision meeting, commissioners voted unanimously to accept the resignation of Tina Fisk. Fisk announced last Wednesday that she was resigning effective immediately but didn’t give any explaination. Mayor Bernie Dardis read a letter out loud from Fisk saying she was told that the city…
The Federal Reserve is expected to hike rates by one-quarter of a percent and although that doesn’t seem like much, it could mean hundreds of dollars per month extra for local home buyers. “With our rates right now – they had gone up to over 7% recently, maybe a few months ago it got up to over 7%. However, right…
BRITTON, S.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A Havana, North Dakota man has been identified as the person killed in a crash last Tuesday east of Britton, South Dakota. 83-year-old William Krafka was driving a pickup on Highway 10 when he crossed the center line and collided head-on with a car driven by 19-year-old Cade Roerig of St. Eden, South Dakota. Roerig had…
FARGO, N.D. (AP/KVRR) — A former employee at Maple View Memory Care in Fargo is sentenced to two years in prison for the death 78-year-old Gary Pearson. 60-year-old Rachel Cooper pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the August 2021 death. A criminal complaint said Cooper was cleaning Pearson’s bathroom and that the two appeared to have struggled over the door….
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A former Fargo South band teacher is sentenced to 30 months behind bars for having sex with a 17-year-old female student. Sebastian Tackling must also register as a sex offender and serve five years of probation. Tackling pleaded guilty in January to a count of corruption of a minor in Cass County District Court. A charge…
FARGO (KVRR) – A routine training mission for the North Dakota Air National Guard recently turned into real-life drama. Members of the National Guard’s 119th Wing were training at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam in February when the scenario quickly changed. Major Nick Hanson says a Fargo-based MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle was ordered into action to locate a…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Brewhalla made its grand opening this weekend. The new indoor market proving to be a big hit for customers. “We’ve always been dreaming of this idea. We try to work some of these concepts into the brewery we renovated next door that opened in 2018. We weren’t able to get it done exactly the way we…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo city crews will be back at it tonight trying to widen streets in residential neighborhoods by removing snow. They’ll be working in an area from 12th Avenue North to 13th Avenue South and from the Red River to University Drive. Residents and visitors are being urged to remove their vehicles parked on roads in those…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — Senator John Hoeven is praising the work of the National Guard in serving our state and nation. He addressed the North Dakota National Guard’s annual Roughrider Conference Saturday in Bismarck. Hoeven talked about upgrades to MQ-9 Reapers in Fargo, efforts to bring the MQ-1C Gray Eagle to the Army National Guard and work to make the…
