UPDATE: The victim is identified as Judy Rusten. THOMPSON, N.D. – The North Dakota Highway Patrol says an 83-year-old Aneta, North Dakota woman was killed in a wrong-way crash on I-29 about two miles north of Thompson on Monday afternoon. She was driving an SUV that collided head-on with a pickup. The woman was going south in the northbound lanes….
GRAND FORKS COUNTY, N.D. (KVRR) — A man from Hatton, North Dakota is dead after a crash near Northwood. North Dakota Highway Patrol says it happened around 9:30 Wednesday morning at Highway 18 and 4th Avenue Northeast. A truck driven by a 16-year-old boy went through the intersection and hit the car driven by a 66-year-old man. Both vehicles went…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Early voting is now underway in Stutsman County at the courthouse in Jamestown through Saturday. It begins Tuesday in Cass and Grand Forks counties. In Cass, polling locations are at the Cass County Courthouse, Fargodome, Northview Church, Ramada, Red River Valley Fairgrounds and Casselton Days Inn. There is a slight change in early voting on Saturday…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – The National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning for eastern North Dakota, and west-central and northwest Minnesota until 9 p.m. Monday. Dry conditions combined with strong wind prompted the warning. Some counties affected include Cass, Grand Forks, Traill, Steele, and Barnes in North Dakota, and Clay, Norman, Becker, Otter Tail, and Wilkin Counties…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A crop insurance fraud case comes to an end with the sentence of a potato farmer in U.S. District Court in Fargo. 59-year-old Darren Tronson of Buxton, North Dakota was sentenced to one year of probation for concealing a material fact in a government case. It was the final pending case against Tronson and his potato…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — The Northeast Central Judicial District has a new judge. Gov. Doug Burgum has appointed Grand Forks attorney Theodore “Ted” Sandberg to the bench. Sandberg has practiced law for over 25 years and is currently senior partner at his firm of Olson, Juntunen, Sandberg, Boettner & Cobb Ltd. concentrating on criminal defense and general litigation. He earned…
GRAND FORKS CO. (KFGO/KVRR) – Two men were seriously injured in a crash on I-29 about 2 miles south of Grand Forks shortly after 5:30 p.m. Thursday. The State Patrol says a GMC Arcadia driven by an 81-year-old man from Devils Lake and a Dodge Durango driven by a 54-year-old man from Thompson, North Dakota were southbound in the left…
GRAND FORKS COUNTY, N.D. (KVRR) — Two riders in a motorcycle club ride are dead after crashing near Larimore, North Dakota. North Dakota Highway Patrol says 59-year-old Timothy Olson from Drayton and his passenger, 44-year-old Nicole Brown, also from Drayton, were thrown from the bike and died at the scene. The patrol says Olson failed to negotiate a curve on…
GRAND FORKS CO., N.D. (KVRR) — The body of a Grand Forks man is recovered from the Turtle River in Grand Forks County. Police say the 31-year-old was reported missing late Wednesday night. Officers determined the man may have been at Turtle River State Park earlier in the day. Grand Forks County deputies and state park officials searched the area….
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A widespread 9-1-1 outage affecting a large portion of North Dakota is resolved. It affected several counties, including Cass and Grand Forks, and started in some areas just before 10 a.m. The director at Red River Regional Dispatch Center says she isn’t yet sure about its cause. She says they were notified by state officials that…
