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FM Visitor Bureau Ad Campaign Highlights LGBTQ+ Friendly Businesses

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A social media advertising campaign highlights the F-M Convention and Visitor’s Bureau list of LGBTQ+ friendly businesses in the area. The list is made up of businesses that have tagged themselves as LGBTQ+ friendly on Google. The CVB compiled the list as part of their ongoing efforts to showcase the inclusiveness of the metro to travelers…

Court records provide more detail in downtown Fargo assault case

FARGO (KFGO/KVRR) – Court documents are providing more information about a downtown Fargo assault that left one man with serious injuries to his head and face. Travice Ledoux, 36, was arrested Friday, and is charged with aggravated assault and accomplice to aggravated assault. According to court records, Ledoux – known in those documents as suspect #4 – was one of…

Union: Contract Talks With CNH Manufacturing in Fargo “Intense”

FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) – Contract negotiations are described by a union leader as “intense” as the union representing production workers at the CNH Manufacturing Plant in Fargo continue. The contract, covering about 800 hourly employees, expires on Sunday.  A union representative says Local 2525 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers is seeking higher pay, and health care…

Attempt to expedite ethics probe of Minnesota state senator charged with burglary fails on tie vote

State Sen. Nicole Mitchell (D) Woodbury, Minn.ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Republican attempt to expedite an ethics investigation of a Democratic Minnesota state senator who’s facing a felony burglary charge failed on a tie vote Wednesday. Sen. Nicole Mitchell, of Woodbury, was absent as the Senate reconvened for the first time since her arrest early Monday at her estranged stepmother’s home in the…

UND’s Energy and Environmental Research Center Lands $11.6 Million Oil Recovery Study

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) – UND’s Energy and Environmental Research Center has landed a major award to study enhanced oil recovery. The Department of Energy is giving the center $11.6 million to investigate how CO2 injected into an unconventional reservoir in the Bakken Formation will result in increased oil and gas production. They will also look into the feasibility for…

Moorhead To Hold Simulated Chemical Leak Training

MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — If you’re in Moorhead on Thursday and Friday you might see crews responding to a simulated chemical leak. Moorhead Public Service and Moorhead Fire Department are conducting the emergency response training. There will be a series of practice responses by Moorhead Fire Department’s HAZMAT Team. The training exercise is set to start at 9 a.m. both…