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LIVE: Scary Creatures

Learn facts about these awful animals that take them from frightening to fun.

They’re some of Halloween’s most dreaded characters. Snakes, spiders, even menacing birds of prey that hover above our heads like a Hitchcockian nightmare come to life. The Halloween holiday is full of them. But this year, the Red River Zoo wants you to get to know its scariest critters a little better, and make friends with the frightening. Even zoo…

West Fargo Residents Must Obtain Variance to Discharge Sump Pumps Indoors

The variance is a one-time fee.

WEST FARGO, N.D.–The City of West Fargo is reminding residents to obtain a seasonal variance in order to discharge their sump pump water indoors. The $50 variance allows residents to discharge the sump pump water indoors into the sewer system between November 1, 2019 and April 1, 2020. The variance is a one-time fee and can be purchased at any…

Local Kurd reacts to Bakr al-Baghdadi’s death

The ISIS leader died Saturday during a U.S. military operation in northwest Syria

FARGO, N.D. — Over the past three decades, Kurdish immigrant Kawar Farok watched as dictators in the Middle East came and went; the most recent of which is ISIS leader Bakr al–Baghdadi. “Extremism is an ideology. It doesn’t end with one person. We saw Bin Laden go. We saw Zarqawi go. We saw Abu Bakr al–Baghdadi go. So, if extremism…

Man blinded by pepper ball shot by Fargo Police

FARGO, N.D. – It all began with Stephanie Patel’s post on the social media platform Nextdoor over the weekend. She claims her son, 27-year-old Tyler Patel, was shot with pepper balls by Fargo police officers on October 2nd at 1300 Gateway Drive causing him to be blinded in one eye. Patel was arrested for terrorizing and preventing arrest. Police are…

Lack of Labor Sparks Hiring Blitz at Sandy’s Donuts

North Dakota touts the second lowest unemployment rate in the nation, but it isn't helping some small businesses...

FARGO, ND – Mary Rohrich has been working at Sandy’s Donuts for 21 years. She’s never seen the store this busy, and the kitchen this empty. “We need help. There is a lot of orders coming in and you know people come in to buy. We have days that we run out of things because it’s so busy, and then…

LIVE: Fly Girls

See why the region's been giving women wings to fly for an entire century.

You probably know all about Amelia Earhart, but did you know the Red River Valley region is home to one of the most daring women pilots in early aviation history? Award-winning author Keith O’Brien is talking at the Fargo Air Museum Monday night about his new book out, called “Fly Girls,” and featuring the true story of Florence Klingensmith, a…

Nichole’s Halloween Baking Series: Ghost Ganache Layer Cake, Part 2

We're taking the scary out of making the most elegant sweets for the season.

By now, you’ve probably watched the first part of our Nichole’s Ghost Ganache Layer Cake and thought to yourself, “This isn’t so bad. I could pull that off.” And then you realize that the cute little meringue ghosts on top are made of a combination of hot sugar syrup and whipped egg whites in a seven-minute frosting recipe, and you…

LIVE: Bad Witch Illustrations

Putting the boo in the beautiful this Halloween.

In the place where dark meets dreams, and fairy tales meet monsters, there lies the work of Monique Burgoz of Bad Witch Illustrations. The Minneapolis-based artist has Red River Valley roots. And today, she came back to the region this morning to sit down live in studio with the Morning Show’s Emily Welker to talk about her latest fine art…

American Red Cross Installing Free Smoke Alarms in West Fargo

The smoke alarm installations will take place November 3 through November 16.

WEST FARGO, N.D.–The West Fargo Fire Department is partnering with the American Red Cross to install free smoke alarms in the Meadow Ridge Development in West Fargo. Anyone living in a permanent, single-family dwelling from Main Avenue to 7th Avenue East and 45th Street to 17th Street East can request to get current smoke alarms checked and new alarms installed….