MINNEAPOLIS - Minneapolis voters have rejected a proposal to replace the city’s police department with a new Department of Public Safety. The initiative would have changed the city charter to remove a requirement that the city have a police department…
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A Detroit Lakes man pleads guilty to robbing a convenience store on the White Earth Indian Reservation. According to court documents, 33-year-old Levi Jerome entered the store last November with a rifle. Jerome pointed it at the…
LAKE PARK, Minn. (KVRR) -- People in the Lake Park Audubon Public Schools district are voting on a nearly $23 million bond referendum. There are two questions on the ballot: the first would use over $21 million to improve the…
MINNEAPOLIS - News organizations are renewing their request to the judge overseeing the case of a former police officer charged in the death of Daunte Wright. They're asking her to allow live video coverage of former Brooklyn Center Officer Kim…
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (KVRR) -- Threats made against schools in Detroit Lakes have been resolved according to Superintendent Mark Jenson and Detroit Lakes Police Chief Steve Todd. The first threat was phoned in to a Fargo news outlet's tip line.…
Young hockey players in the region are struggling through tryouts right about now, and they've taken a lot of time and effort to get to this point. And so have their parents.…
MINNEAPOLIS - Voters in Minneapolis are deciding whether to replace the city’s police department with a new Department of Public Safety. The election comes more than a year after George Floyd’s death launched a movement to defund or abolish police…
MINNEAPOLIS - The University of Minnesota will offer free or reduced tuition to many Native American students attending its five campuses starting next fall. The cost waiver program had previously been offered only at the Morris campus, but now will…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) -- An MSUM graduate and bodybuilder fulfills a lifelong dream of owning a business. Brady Hand is the new owner of Kone's Kreamery which is on the 1600 block of 45th Street…
FARGO (KVRR) - Sanford Health says out of approximately 9,800 employees who work in the Fargo region, 31 employees have left as a result of the company's vaccine mandate. Vice-President and Medical Officer Dr. Doug Griffin says Sanford employees who…
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KVRR) -- A Barrett, Minnesota man is sentenced to 19 years in prison for a deadly chase that ended up killing two people in Fergus Falls. As part of a plea agreement, Cody Freitag pleaded guilty to…
MINNESOTA (KVRR) - Thirty years ago trick or treating and living in Minnesota turned into a survival event. The best way to describe the three days of snow that caused havoc in Minnesota three decades…
MINNESOTA (AP) — Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan has tested positive for a breakthrough case of COVID-19, she announced Saturday. Flanagan says she received the positive test after caring for her 8-year-old daughter Siobhan, who tested positive on Oct. 22.…
WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration has paved the way for children ages 5 to 11 to get Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. The agency authorized the kid-size doses on Friday. They are just a third of the amount given to…
BILLINGS, Mont. - The Biden administration said Friday that industry regulators for the first time will begin analyzing greenhouse gas emissions from federal oil and gas leases on a national scale, as they prepare to hold lease sales in numerous…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KVRR) - Gov. Tim Walz says COVID-19 vaccinations are up nearly 40% among Minnesotans 12-17 years old in the past week. During the first week of the "Kids Deserve a Shot" campaign, Walz says more than 2,200 Minnesotans…
Halloween season wraps up this Sunday, but don't worry: you have one last chance this weekend to scare yourself silly at one of the region's longest-running local haunted locations. It's the final weekend of…
It's one of the little-known Halloween gems of our region, hiding right in plain sight in an unassuming strip mall on Fargo's south side. But when you get find your way to Antique Addiction…
DULUTH, Minn. - A woman has died and a man has been injured in a house explosion and fire in St. Louis County. Sheriff's officials say Michael Gramse was injured in the Wednesday morning explosion in Greenwood Township. Authorities believe…
MINNEAPOLIS - A judge says a Minnesota man accused of killing three family members with a wrench is mentally incompetent to stand trial, citing testimony from doctors about his mental illness intensified by energy drinks. David Ekers is charged with…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — A one of a kind local organization had to unexpectedly move from Dilworth to Moorhead and is in need of the community's support. Jazzy & Mumbos is a volunteer run non-profit thrift store. Pet owners can…
WASHINGTON (KVRR) — Following her own cancer diagnosis, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar is introducing legislation to promote preventative health screenings. "I am sharing my story to call attention to the fact that many people have…
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KVRR) - A Fergus Falls surgeon who was fired by the Lake Region Medical Group after opposing mask mandates at a school board meeting last week gets national attention. Dr. Jeffrey Horak appeared on Fox and Friends…
NEW YORK - A Twin Cities area man has been charged with trying to extort $150,000 from Major League Baseball as he illegally streamed copyrighted content from major professional sports leagues online. Joshua Streit of St. Louis Park was charged…
PIERRE, S.D. - Search warrants will be unsealed in an investigation into billionaire banker-turned philanthropist T. Denny Sanford for possible possession of child pornography, the South Dakota Supreme Court ruled. The unanimous ruling, dated Wednesday and announced Thursday, upheld a…
