THREE RIVERS PARK DISTRICT, Minn. (KVRR) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz helped kickoff the deer hunting season Saturday at the 20th annual Governor’s Deer Hunting Opener. He was joined by wildlife supervisor Steven Hogg at Three Rivers Park District, which serves the suburban areas of the Twin Cities. “Well it never fails. We were walking back and there’s a buck…
LAMOURE CO., N.D. (KVRR) — The high wind is a factor in a crash that killed a Kulm, North Dakota woman in LaMoure County. Highway Patrol says the crash happened around 9 a.m. Sunday on Highway 281, about 10 miles north of Edgeley. They say a tanker was passing a pickup pulling an empty enclosed trailer when the trailer was…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — The Islamic Society of Fargo-Moorhead has now raised just under sixty-eight hundred dollars through GoFundMe to benefit the Muslim cemetery after 5 burial vaults were destroyed. Damage is estimated at $5,000. The vaults were stored inside an empty home next to the cemetery south of Fargo with property owned by the Islamic Society in Stanley Township,…
NORTH DAKOTA (KVRR) – North Dakota is the only state in the country that doesn’t have voter registration. “We have an incredibly secure system with all the laws in place currently, the checks and balances, we really don’t have any cases of fraud,” North Dakota Secretary of State Al Jaeger said. “Our present system of identification is plenty and maybe…
ANTARCTICA (KVRR) – A University of North Dakota geology professor may have found the oldest ice in history. Jaakko Putkonen and a team of researchers found the five-million-year-old sample in 2018 under two feet of dirt in the Ong Valley of the Trans-Antarctic Mountains. They melted part of it to analyze the dirt and sand inside to date it. Geologists…
They are by turns delicious and deadly, innocent and intoxicating, remarkable and wholly ordinary. They are the plants and mushrooms spreading silently around us, and the wrong encounter with one could cost your child, your pet, your elderly loved one, even you, your life. So now, a Facebook group 300-plus experts strong has sprung up, with members all around the…
NOME, N.D. (KVRR) – Two women spent years turning an abandoned century old schoolhouse into an international destination in rural North Dakota. Now they’re getting national recognition for their hard work. The Nome Schoolhouse won the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation National Preservation Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The award is for preservation of a building and…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — North Dakota Game & Fish Biologist Doug Leier says this season is shaping up to be a good one for deer hunters due to good weather conditions. He says the deer population is slowly coming back after dealing with drought across the state in the last few years, but wildfires remain a risk. “You might live…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Another drawing last night without a jackpot winner. That means Powerball increases to $1.5 billion dollars for its next drawing on Saturday night. If a player wins, it will be the second-largest jackpot in Powerball history. There was a relatively big winner in Hinckley, Minnesota in the latest drawing. One ticket sold at a Kwik Trip…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — According to a study from WalletHub, Minnesota and North Dakota voters are some of the most powerful for the midterm elections. North Dakota is in the top five for voting power in the senate and gubernatorial elections. WalletHub created a voting power index to calculate the number of elected officials in the federal government by totaling the…
