FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo city leaders have adopted an ordinance prohibiting camping on public property, but there was some dispute over a resolution to the ordinance. It includes several new priority enforcement areas and the intention to implement Housing First, a short-term solution that will precede the comprehensive long-term Housing First strategy. The vote was three to two in…
ST. PAUL (KVRR) — There has been a measles outbreak in the Twin Cities. The state’s Department of Health says most cases are among unvaccinated kids in the Somali community. With 36 confirmed cases, 35 of them being people within the state and one visiting. About one-third of the patients were hospitalized. It is the biggest measles outbreak since 2017…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — In the last school year cost taxpayers over $446 million for deployment of officials to schools for situations such as bomb threats. Here in North Dakota it cost more than $103,000. “North Dakota for some reason appears to be on the list. You already exceeded last year’s threats. You’ve already exceeded the cost of last year’s…
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (KVRR) — An 81-year-old man is dead after getting hit by a car while walking in the 1500 block of Randolph Road in Detroit Lakes. The man and the 19-year-old female driver of the car are both from Detroit Lakes. Becker County Sheriff’s Office says the incident happened in the noon hour. The man died shortly after…
Geettoe KamaraFARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Fargo man is arrested as an accomplice to the murder of Sampson Bleh on August 23. Police say at the time of his arrest, 30-year-old Geettoe Kamara was already being held in Cass County Jail on drug charges. The shooting suspect, 34-year-old Leo Dartoe of Fargo is still on the run. Dartoe fled the…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — This might get you in the Christmas music mood. Mark your calendars and get your tickets for Pentatonix: Hallelujah! It’s A Christmas Tour. The Grammy and Emmy award winning a cappella group is coming to Fargodome on Sunday, December 15. They say it will be their biggest Christmas tour yet and includes a stop at New…
FARGO (KFGO) – Fargo police say the FBI is now leading the investigation into a series of bomb threats in the city last week. There were six bomb threats in all. None were found to be credible. The office at Fargo South High School received threats Wednesday and Friday. The call on Friday forced the school to dismiss early for…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFGO) – The former deputy attorney general under late North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem is dead. KFGO News first reported in March 2022 that Troy Seibel would be replaced by Attorney General Drew Wrigley. He was let go after Wrigley discovered that he and Stenehjem’s administrative assistant, Liz Brocker, deleted thousands of emails following Stenehjem’s death in…
LISBON, N.D. (KVRR/NEWSDAKOTA) — A Lisbon man faces terrorizing and assault charges after allegedly threatening to kill his father over a bottle of nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas. Court records show 31-year-old Hunter Mairs had been using marijuana, Adderall, and nitrous oxide and causing disturbances in the family home for weeks. On Thursday night, his father took away…
NEW SALEM, N.D. (KVRR: UPDATE 4:15PM) — A Dickinson man is dead after a shootout with Highway Patrol troopers and a county deputy on I-94 near New Salem in Morton County. A trooper tried to stop 43-year-old Nicholas Kirby in Bismarck around 12:45 a.m. but he sped off onto I-94 heading west. Another trooper and Morton County deputies joined the…
