This year’s CoreCon is shaping up to be a fun one, and one of the best parts is the charity the pop culture convention is featuring this year. Shellback Tech is the brainchild of war veteran Travis Peacock. He started it 4 years ago in the region. The program builds free gaming systems for disabled veterans and first responders. Peacock…
MINOT, N.D. – Police say they’re investigating a homicide that happened in Minot early Friday. Officers responded to an address on the city’s northwest side shortly before 1 a.m. on a report of an unresponsive, bleeding man on the ground in front of a residence. Police found a 22-year-old man with an apparent gunshot wound. He was dead at the…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – With the snow melting away, a new season returns to the region: road construction season. Fargo city engineers are designing a plan to rebuild roads, using a system determining how many potholes are on the road and how often the street department has to do maintenance. “We have a pavement management system that goes and drives…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — We are learning more about the very large pool of candidates running for Fargo City Commission. The League of Women Voters of the Red River Valley held a forum for the candidates at city hall. It had to be split up into two sessions since there are 15 people running for two seats. The candidates took…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFGO) – Secretary of State Al Jaeger has approved a petition to place a measure on the ballot to legalize recreational marijuana in North Dakota. The committee sponsoring the petition, New Approach North Dakota, will have one year to gather signatures and submit the petition to the Secretary of State. The proposed measure would allow any person over…
BARNES CO., N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is increasing outflow from Baldhill Dam north of Valley City in order to lower Lake Ashtabula by as much as six inches in the wake of last week’s winter storm. The Corps said the historic late winter storm produced as much moisture as a typical winter and with melting expected…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A new survey gives insight on how the “return to normal” procedure has been more difficult for some than others. The survey from Future Forum collected over 10 thousand results across the globe where they report stress and anxiety levels in the workplace are at its highest since June of 2020. A clinical psychologist at Essentia…
Gigi Sohn FARGO (KVRR) – A political action committee led by former Democratic U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp has started a campaign to block the confirmation of President Biden’s nominee for the Federal Communications Commission. Heitkamp, who founded the One Country Project, says FCC nominee Gigi Sohn is “the wrong pick for rural America.” “Given the significant progress that has been…
Spring racing season is getting closer. And now, you can put some spring in your step, and in some deserving kids’, by using the the power of social media. Blue Cross Blue Shield is asking us, and our colleagues, to join the “Tag 5” Corporate Challenge in the BNSF Railway Friday Night 5K at the Essentia Marathon coming up next…
Ray HolmbergBISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) – Gov. Doug Burgum says he supports State Sen. Ray Holmberg’s decision to step down from his leadership role, just days after reports that said Holmberg exchanged scores of text messages with Nicholas Derosier, who is jailed and facing federal child pornography charges. Holmberg resigned Wednesday as head of a powerful panel that oversees the Legislature’s…
