FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo Public Works are telling the public not to park on the street as blizzard-like conditions sweep through our area. They say plowing operations will be ongoing as the storm progresses west to east. As the snow keeps coming down, our region is getting some help from other branches of the North Dakota Department of Transportation….
FARGO, N.D (KVRR) — (UPDATE 9:30PM TUESDAY) North Dakota Highway Patrol and North Dakota DOT have now closed Interstate 29 from Grand Forks to the South Dakota border. The interstate is also closed in South Dakota from the border to Watertown. They earlier closed a section of Interstate 94 from Fargo to Bismarck. Highway 2 is closed from Grand Forks…
South Dakota DOTS.D. DOT: Interstate 29 (both northbound and southbound) will be closed from Watertown (exit 177) to the North Dakota state line at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 21, 2023. Accumulating snow is causing hazardous travel throughout northeastern South Dakota. High snowfall rates will continue to create difficult travel conditions with snow-packed roads and low visibility this evening and…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — The North Dakota House passed a bill to raise speed limits from 75 to 80 miles per hour on most of Interstates 29 and 94. The bill allows cities like Fargo and Grand Forks to limit speeds on the interstates within city limits. “For a long time, we’ve had a prevailing speed on I-94 and 29…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Slick road conditions in Fargo cause a driver to lose control, crash and end up in handcuffs. Highway Patrol arrested 40-year-old Esperanza Mata of Fargo for driving under the influence of drugs. They say Mata lost control of her car on I-29 southbound near the 19th Avenue North interchange around 1 Monday afternoon. The vehicle ended…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — If you aren’t sure just how slick the roads are out there, take a look at this car on its roof along I-29 right here in Fargo. It was spotted along the northbound lanes just a short distance from the onramp from 13th Avenue South. This vehicle had already been checked by Highway Patrol before 1…
CASS CO., N.D. (KVRR) — A motorcycle driver clocked going 71 in a 55 on I-29 in Fargo leads a Highway Patrol trooper on a pursuit into Harwood. The trooper says 29-year-old Chase Dubord of Fargo hit speeds of 120 miles per hour before he terminated the pursuit. A short time after, he saw Dubord crash the bike in Harwood…
FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) — A man is dead after falling from a railroad bridge over I-29 onto a semi and then onto the interstate. He was taken by ambulance to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. His name has not been released. The incident happened between 12th and 19th Avenues North shortly before 6:30 last night. Police say…
Jean-Pierre Petit / FacebookSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KVRR/AP) — A bicyclist from Winnipeg who was raising money for his granddaughter’s kidney transplant has died in a Sioux Falls hospital. Jean-Pierre Petit was on a long-distance ride and hit from behind by a cargo truck last Thursday while riding on the shoulder of Interstate 29. He had passed through Fargo earlier in the…
WALSH CO., N.D. (KVRR) — North Dakota Department of Transportation workers are trying to keep I-29 southbound open at mile marker 166. That is just south of the Warsaw/Minto exit in Walsh County. They are installing water barriers as the flood waters keep rising. One lane is already closed until the water is no longer covering the roadway. They ask…
