MINNEAPOLIS – Xcel Energy wants to increase electric rates by about 20% over the next three years, adding an average $15 to $21 per month cumulatively to residential customers’ bills. Minneapolis-based Xcel filed its request with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, which must approve any increase. The rate hike would generate about $677 million over the three years with a…
WAUBUN, Minn. (KVRR/(KFGO) – The Callaway, Minnesota police chief is hospitalized at Sanford Health in Fargo with serious injuries in an accident at his rural Waubun, Minnesota home. Mahnomen County Sheriff Josh Guenther says his office received a call about 6:30 p.m. Monday from the Mahnomen Hospital to report Tim Haverkamp had arrived there with head injuries. Guenther says initially…
A local garden store and plant nursery is turning into a real-life Little Shop of Horrors, just in time for the Halloween holiday. Fargo’s Baker Garden and Gift is teaching classes on how to care for carnivorous plants — and you can get in on the bloody good time. They cover carnivorous monkey cups and other pitcher plants, sundews, and…
Judge Peter CahillMINNEAPOLIS – The judge who oversaw the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin says that he will release the names of the 15 jurors and alternates next week. Judge Peter Cahill’s order says he will make the list of jurors public on Nov. 1. The written questionnaires of all 109 potential jurors who were formally…
FARGO (KVRR) – Rivals join together all in the name of raising awareness and money for breast cancer research. KVRR Chief Meteorologist Rob Kupec and Park Company Realtor Shane Cullen are competing against each other to raise money during this year’s “Real Men Wear Pink” campaign for the American Cancer Society. They are raising as much money as possible…
Arthur KollieFARGO – A Fargo man has entered an Alford plea in the death of a 14-year-old girl in a random attack last June. Arthur Kollie entered the plea in connection with the death of Jupiter Paulsen in Fargo. With an Alford plea, Kollie maintains his innocence, but acknowledges there is enough evidence for a conviction. Charging documents say a…
MINNEAPOLIS – A judge has ordered two Twin Cities rental companies and their officers to pay $736,000 to nearly two dozen women over allegations that one landlord pressured the tenants for sex to avoid eviction. The consent decree filed in federal court directs Fruen & Pfeiffer and M. Fruen Properties and individual defendants to pay $32,000 to each of the…
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KVRR) — “He obviously had and still has the community supporting him,” said one speaker. Dozens have shown up today here at N.P. Park in Fergus Falls in support of Dr. Jeffrey Horak, Horak was a surgeon in this community for 15 years before being terminated because of some comments at a school board meeting. “You know…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A new food pantry is unveiled at Lutheran Church of the Cross and dozens gathered to celebrate the opening. The Food Share Alliance Partners include Gate City Bank along with Great Plains Food Bank, YWCA Cass Clay and the city of West Fargo came together to make this possible. Local donations poured in from Hornbacher’s,…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — North Dakota Department of Health announcing it is turning off all comment sections on its social media sites starting Tuesday to curtail the spread of misinformation. The department made the announcement on its social media pages including Facebook. The department will turn off comments and replies on all posts and not be specific to any particular…
