Minnesota News

GiGi's Playhouse celebrates ten years with family fun event

MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) -- GiGi’s Playhouse celebrated its ten-year anniversary on Sunday with a high-energy, family-fun event. Families a part of GiGi’s Playhouse teamed up to walk or run through the annual GiGiFIT Acceptance Challenge. From both a 5k Fun…

Second man wanted in Fargo shooting arrested in Moorhead

MOORHEAD, Minn (KVRR) – A man wanted in connection with a Fargo armed robbery shooting earlier this month was arrested in Moorhead late Friday night. The Moorhead Police Department says 35-year-old Dennis Salinas and two others were arrested in an…

Find Your Way to Oktoberfest

HANKINSON, N.D.  -- It's time to get your German on. setup is already starting in the southern valley for the 23rd annual Oktoberfest celebration in Hankinson, North Dakota. Every year, it attracts visitors from all…

Pet Connection: Meet Sriracha

FARGO -- Sriracha is a spicy little sweetie who's the perfect combination of docility and personality, which has a lot to do with her species. This little girl is a bearded dragon who puts the…

Bird Strike Season Starting

FARGO -- Wildlife researchers are sounding the alarm on a phenomenon that's killing birds on NDSU's campus, and it could be happening where you live and work, too. It's bird strike, and it's killed…

One seriously injured in north Moorhead crash

MOORHEAD (KVRR/KFGO) – The State Patrol says three people suffered injuries in a two-vehicle crash in north Moorhead at around 7:00 Wednesday morning. It happened at the intersection of Highway 75 and 28th Avenue North. Twenty-eight-year-old Callie Folstrom, of St.…

Illegal aliens arrested in targeted operation near Black Duck, MN

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) -- Border Patrol agents have arrested three illegal aliens in what they call a targeted operation near Black Duck, Minnesota in Beltrami County. The agents are assigned to International Falls, Minnesota. On Wednesday, September 17  the agents…

Geocaching game mistaken for a bomb in Stephen, MN

STEPHEN, Minn. (KVRR) -- What looked like a suspicious package underneath a church picnic table in Stephen, Minnesota turned out to be part of the geocaching game. Marshall County Sheriff's Office called in the bomb squad from Grand Forks this…

Former Sen. Nicole Mitchell sentenced to work release

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (FOX 9) - Former Minnesota Sen. Nicole Mitchell was sentenced to six months of work release on Tuesday for her burglary conviction after she broke into her stepmother's home in Detroit Lakes. A jury found Mitchell guilty…