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Chalk Fest brings people out to celebrate

If you're spending the holiday in the Fargo-Moorhead area we have some tips on events going on you can attend and celebrate.

July 2, 2022

Site Staff,

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — People are celebrating the holiday weekend in many ways, some are out of town, but if you are in the Fargo Moorhead area, events like the Chalk Walk are happening People flocked to downtown for the final Chalk Fest of the season, there was also some rock painting going on with Fargo Moorhead Rocks. “I’m always…

Poultry exhibition ban ends in Minnesota

July 2, 2022

Site Staff,

(KVRR/KFGO) — The Minnesota Board of Animal Health is ending a temporary poultry exhibition ban. Animal health officials first enacted the ban in April. The ban included all poultry swaps, fairs, exhibitions, and other events where live poultry and susceptible birds were brought together and then dispersed. Dr. Dale Lauer with the University of Minnesota Poultry Testing Lab in Willmar…

Police searching for sex offender living at Centre Inc.

July 1, 2022

Site Staff,

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – A high risk sex offender living at Centre Inc. in North Fargo is on the run. Thirty-six-year-old Ethan Bendickson is five feet 11 inches tall and weighs 190 pounds. He served more than five years in prison for a federal abusive sexual contact charge for having sex with a 15-year-old girl he knew. Bendickson is on…

ND Job Service websites down since Sunday

July 1, 2022

Jim Monk,

BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – Two websites that serve Job Service North Dakota have now been offline for nearly a week due to what the department is calling a vendor service issue. The database that allows job seekers to search for jobs, as well as the site which houses labor market information are affected by the outage. The outage, which began…

Memphis murder suspect arrested in North Dakota

July 1, 2022

Jim Monk,

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – Authorities say a Tennessee man has been arrested in North Dakota on a charge that he killed a man at a Memphis motel earlier this year. According to the district attorney’s office in Shelby County, Tennessee, 24-year-old Michael Ray Tillman was indicted on a first-degree murder charge after he was arrested in Bismarck. Tillman is accused…

TSA installing new 3D bag-scanning technology at Hector International Airport

June 30, 2022

Site Staff,

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Hector International Airport passengers should prepare for some delays as the TSA starts to install new security machines Tuesday The TSA is installing a new Computed Tomography system by creating 3D images of items in a carry-on bag. “I think people will enjoy is that you no longer need to remove your electronics. So, your phone,…

North Dakota Leaders Praise U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Against EPA

June 30, 2022

TJ Nelson,

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KVRR) — North Dakota’s Republican leaders are praising the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling against the EPA. The court said that the Clean Air Act does not give the EPA broad authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that contribute to global warming. North Dakota was one of 20 states that petitioned with West Virginia. “North Dakota…

Bill Gates Purchase of North Dakota Land Found To Be In Compliance

June 30, 2022

KVRR Staff,

FOX News (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota attorney general has found the sale of a couple thousand acres of prime farmland to a group tied to Bill Gates complies with a Depression-era law meant to protect family farms because the land is being leased back to farmers. The state’s Republican Attorney General Drew Wrigley…

Maroon 5 Cancels Fargodome Stop, Again

June 30, 2022

TJ Nelson,

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — More bad news for fans waiting since 2020 to see Maroon 5 in Fargo. The band has canceled its Fargodome show, again, along with most of its summer U.S. tour and no reason has been given. The only dates still on the bands website include stops in Quebec City and Orlando. They were supposed to be…

Motorcycle crash victim was Carrington police chief

June 30, 2022

Jim Monk,

FARGO, N.D. – Officials say the man killed in a motorcycle crash this week on the interstate west of Fargo was the police chief of Carrington, North Dakota. The North Dakota Highway Patrol says Brandon Sola was also a master sergeant with the North Dakota Air National Guard in Fargo. The Highway Patrol says the 36-year-old Sola was thrown from…