GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) – Firefighters battled a garage fire overnight in Grand Forks. Firefighters responded to a detached garage on the 300 block of Cottonwood Street around 1:30 Tuesday morning. The found smoke coming from the two-stall garage. They quickly put out a fire inside the garage. The building itself only has light damage, but most of the things…
WASHINGTON (KVRR) — UND is awarded $38 million to advance carbon capture at Rainbow Energy’s Coal Creek Station. The university’s Energy & Environmental Research Center will advance the implementation of carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies. Coal Creek is the largest power plant in North Dakota located near the Missouri River between Underwood and Washburn. Sen. Kevin Cramer calls it…
GRAND FORKS, ND (KVRR) — Voters in Grand Forks on Tuesday, will help shape the future of education for students in the city. Grand Forks Public Schools will wait and see if a $79 million referendum is approved. $55 million will go to replacing Valley Middle School. According to Terry Brenner, the superintendent of GFPS, the school was built in…
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO-UPDATE 8:10 PM 05/15/23) — Shawn Johnston has been located by the Devils Lake Police Department and is in custody. **ORIGINAL STORY BELOW** DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A number of law enforcement agencies are searching for a high risk sex offender who they say removed his GPS monitoring bracelet and is missing from a re-entry…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — A Grand Forks man has minor injuries after crashing his pickup into the lead engine of an Amtrak train. The crash happening Thursday morning around 7:20 about a mile west of Interstate 29, southwest of the city. The 60-year-old man was taken to Altru to be treated while his 52-year-old passenger from East Grand Forks…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Grand Forks based technology company called Thread is getting the latest investment from ‘Mr. Wonderful’. Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary’s Wonder Fund North Dakota is investing $2.5 million in the company. A press release from North Dakota Department of Commerce calls Thread the leader in enterprise-scale asset maintenance technology for energy and utilities. Thread has…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KFGO/KVRR) — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission files a complaint against LM Wind Power in Grand Forks for race harassment and retaliation. It was filed Thursday and claims the company violated federal law when it subjected a Black employee to a racially hostile work environment, suggesting white co-workers referred to the employee using the N-word and…
FARGO, N.D. (KFGO/KVRR) — Attorneys for a man accused in federal court of distribution of child pornography and related charges say key evidence in the case should be thrown out because it was discovered during the service of a search warrant in an unrelated construction fraud case. Magistrate Judge Alice Senechal heard testimony from investigators and forensic experts in the…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A federal jury in Fargo finds a woman guilty for her role in an international drug conspiracy case. Marie Um was convicted of all counts against her in a case dubbed “Operation Denial.” Um, also known as “Angry Bird,” was indicted in 2017. She was one of three Canadian nationals extradited for selling fentanyl and similar…
The Toughest Monster Trucks around are heading to Grand Forks this weekend. The Toughest Monster Truck Tour stops at the Alerus Center Saturday afternoon. They came to Fargo for to appear on KVRR’s morning show on Friday, but the snow and cold kept them from busting out the big trucks. Their show in Grand Forks starts at 3:00, but…
