FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) –Essentia Health is helping bring awareness to the effects sun damage can have on the skin. As July is UV Safety Awareness Month, medical professionals are stressing the importance of wearing sunblock as well as sun protecting clothing on a daily basis. Medical staff say an ounce of sunscreen is sufficient enough for the whole body, but…
UPDATE – The jury in the Salamah Pendleton trial has the case and were sent home around 4:30 Tuesday. They will return Wednesday morning to continue deliberating. Prosecutor Carmell Mattison says Salamah Pendleton’s state of mind was reckless and intentional. “If you recall that book that was in his living room opened up was on the page of homicide. It…
Time to start checking your mailboxes, moms and dads: Your new child care tax credits should start rolling in this week. Local tax specialists say they’ve gotten a lot of questions from parents about how the new credit works. The Biden administration is raising the credit from the old $2,000 per child, to $3,600 for little kids up to six…
It’s a return to one of the region’s biggest gatherings of the summer festival season: the Downtown Fargo Street Fair is kicking off with a bang and a big concert this Thursday. It’s billed as the region’s largest free event, with 150 thousand visitors expected over the course of the three-day event. It spans eight city blocks and features food,…
FARGO (KVRR/KFGO) – Fargo Mayor Tim Mahoney is continuing his legal battle against the city as he seeks to run for another term. The city charter says a person can serve three successive terms on the Fargo City Commission as a commissioner and a fourth term if any of the terms are also served as mayor. Mahoney was a city…
NORTH DAKOTA & MINNESOTA (KVRR) — MATBUS is once again providing free rides to the Downtown Street Fair this week. But for the first time, they are also running a free shuttle service to anyone attending the Trollwood musical ‘Cinderella’. It will help ease traffic in Bluestem’s parking lot. The LinkFM shuttles will pick up people at the MATBUS shelter…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — City commissioners vote for the Fargo Police department to provide them with reports of hate crimes the department has identified. “I’m going to be reporting on the hate crimes in terms of whether or not the city ordinance was issued or reports where the city ordinance was applied or federal law was applied. Our current hate…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — The Lamoureux twins are finally getting their North Dakota Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Awards this week. Gov. Doug Burgum will present the award to Monique and Jocelyne Lamoureux on Wednesday in Grand Forks. That is the where the twins grew up, played for the University of North Dakota women’s hockey team and live now. They went…
FARGO, N.D. — A woman is accused of stealing a man’s vehicle and crashing it into a fence in south Fargo. 31-year-old Jamie Singer was arrested for robbery, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest, and contact with bodily fluids. Police responded around 1 this afternoon to the 2700 block of 18th Street South for a stolen vehicle report. The 89-year-old victim told…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) – A man charged in the shooting deaths of his mother and Grand Forks Police Officer Cody Holte testified during his trial Monday in Grand Forks. Salamah Pendleton told jurors that he fired about 22 shots in self-defense after officers entered his apartment and ordered him to come out of his bedroom. Pendleton said that he…
