If you’re heading towards Alexandria tonight you’ll come across a detour. Interstate 94 will temporarily close between Alexandria and Osakis starting at 9:30 p.m. Beams for the bridge replacement project are being delivered and installed. During the closure, traffic will be detoured to Highway 29, County Road 82 and Highway 27. It will last for approximately three hours. Categories: Local…
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. (KFGO/KVRR) – Police in Alexandria continue to investigate a bank robbery there Thursday afternoon. According to the Alexandria Police Department, shortly before 4:30 p.m., a man walked into the downtown Bremer Bank location, showed a teller a gun, and demanded money. No one was hurt and the suspect got away with an undisclosed amount of cash. Responding officers…
ST. PAUL (KVRR/AP) — Minnesota’s Democratic Party chairman says the party is disavowing the endorsement of state House candidate Judd Hoff. “I’m Judd Hoff and I’m running for the 12B state representative seat against ineffective minority member Ms. Mary Franson,” said Hoff in a YouTube post. Hoff was endorsed by Democrats in District 12 to run against Republican Rep. Mary…
X: @MSPPIO_NWFERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KVRR) — Sgt. Jesse Grabow with Minnesota State Patrol is giving us a look at how the roads are out there in some parts of Minnesota. These snapshots of jackknifed and overturned semis were taken along I-94 between Fergus Falls and Alexandria around 2 p.m. Grabow wrote on social media that roads are ice and snow…
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. (KVRR) — An arrest is made in a stabbing death in Alexandria, Minnesota last November. Police arrested 78-year-old Angel Rua-Torres in Alexandria at the home where the crime took place. The Douglas County Attorney’s Office has charged Rua-Torres with the murder of 58-year-old Desiree Frederick, his niece. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Rua-Torres told police he…
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Minn. (KVRR) – People passing by pull an elderly couple out of a burning car after a crash in Douglas County, Minnesota. The Sheriff’s Office says a car drove off the road and hit a large pine tree on County Road 4 near Little Mary Circle Southwest. There were two people in the car, 92-year-old John Plusa and…
DOUGLAS CO., Minn. (KVRR) — A man wakes up when he smells smoke and sees flames coming from the chimney of the wood burning stove in the garage. It happened Sunday morning around 6:40 in Kensington, Minnesota, southwest of Alexandria. That man and another renter were able to get out of the home safely. The homeowner was at work at…
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. (KVRR) — Snow and cold might not be welcomed by everyone but if you run a ski resort, it’s go time. Tom Anderson shared video with us from Andes Tower Hills Ski Area by Alexandria. They started making snow on Friday night and opened for both skiing and snowboarding on Saturday and Sunday. Anderson says they are the…
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. (AP) — Tastefully Simple is named the winner of the 2023 Product Innovation Award through the Direct Selling Association. The Alexandria-based company won for its 12 Days of Dips to Dinner. It features 12 individual product packets featuring recipes that enable a prepare to prepare it as either a Dip or a Dinner. This innovative product exceeded the…
DOUGLAS CO., Minn. (KVRR) — Authorities in Douglas County release the name of a teen killed in a rollover crash near Alexandria early Friday morning. He is 17-year-old Logan Pfeffer of Alexandria. The sheriffs office says he rolled his vehicle on County Road 73 near the intersection with Berglund Mile around 3:30 a.m. Pfeffer was pronounced dead at the scene….
