Fargo, N.D. (KFGO/KVRR) – Fireworks calls have kept the Fargo Fire and Police Departments busy on the 4th of July. Firefighters responded to 15 fires. At least 12 of the fires were fireworks-related. Two fires were grass fires; three fires were dumpster fires; one was a wood chip fire; and, nine were structure fires. The one fire that caused significant…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Last year this time things were a bit different with the beginning of the pandemic, but people are out and about celebrating the holiday. “As the Fourth of July for me as a veteran is all about optimism and happiness and the future of this country for us as the community, for the state, for Fargo,…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — The name of a man killed when a semi crashed through a line of stopped vehicles at the intersection of Highway 2 and Airport Road in Grand Forks is identified. He is 61-year-old Eric Jayne of Des Moines, Iowa. The highway patrol says 54-year-old Steven Piechowski of Felton, Minnesota was behind the wheel of the semi…
RED LAKE CO., Minn. — A Grand Forks Air Force Base airman has drowned in the Red Lake River near Red Lake Falls. Red Lake County Sheriff’s Office identified the man as 24-year-old Nestor Chua Jr. of Grand Forks. He was originally from Anchorage, Alaska. Authorities were called to the river around 2:30 Saturday afternoon for a possible drowning. Boats…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — (UPDATE 8:00 pm) — A suspect is in custody after shots were fired in Moorhead. A police spokesman tells KVRR News that an officer was investigating a suspicious person in the 2500 block of 4th Avenue North around 3 Sunday afternoon when a foot chase started and shots were fired. A witness in the area tells us…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Drekker Brewing Company is restarting its tours around the facility. All tours were canceled last year due to the pandemic. With guidelines being lifted here in the state, operations are now back up and running with the first tour selling out to 31 customers. Tours are on the first Saturday of every month. Each tour is…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — The Broadway Square is ending its Chalk Fest for the season. “We’ve been planning a lot of fun stuff for the summer and I like chalk fest,” Event Attendee Ilyia Hanson said. The theme is outer space. “Kids are allowed to be creative and expressive and draw on the property which is not always allowed. We…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) —The trial for a man accused of killing his mother and a Grand Forks Police Officer has ended for the week. Salamah Pendleton will be back in court Tuesday. “It smelled like a gun range. There were bullet holes everywhere. Like I said, the sound of running water from the water heater being shot up,” Grand…
BISMARCK, N.D. – Abnormally dry weather may have helped boost the number of American white pelicans nesting in north-central North Dakota, considered North America’s largest refuge for the big-billed birds. Results of an aerial survey show 16,600 pelicans nesting at the Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge, an increase of about 2,400 birds from a year ago when high water gobbled…
MINNEAPOLIS – The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with an Amish group in Minnesota that’s fighting efforts to compel them to install septic systems. The case pits families with the traditionalist Swartzentruber Amish in southeastern Minnesota against Fillmore County. Minnesota courts have sided with the county, but the Supreme Court sent the case back to the Minnesota Court of Appeals…
