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Snowmobile Accident Kills NDSU Student

ELK LAKE TOWNSHIP, MN  — According to the Grant County Sheriff’s Office a 22 year old died after his snowmobile fell through the ice early Saturday morning. The Sheriff’s release states that on Saturday, February 22nd, 2020 at 1:41 a.m., the Grant County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call reporting that an individual had fallen through the ice while snowmobiling….

Sen. Amy Klobuchar to hold rally in Fargo

FARGO, N.D. – Minnesota Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar will hold a campaign rally at North Dakota State University on Sunday February 23rd. It will happen at the Great Plains Ballroom in the Memorial Union. Doors open at 10:15 AM and the event begins at 11:00. Klobuchar will try and drum up support before North Dakota’s caucus on…

Sen. Smith to begin Rural Economic Working Group to tackle rural issues

WASHINGTON – Minnesota Senator Tina Smith will host her first meeting of the rural economic working group with a bipartisan group of senators tomorrow. She created the group with Senators Mike Rounds of South Dakota, Deb Fischer of Nebraska and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin to bring local ideas to Washington. The idea is to see how the federal government can…

Census Committee Meets With Faith Based Organizations To Discuss 2020 Census

They are trying to find ways to target the audience that is usually missing from the census.

MOORHEAD, Minn.- They talked about why it’s important to fill out the census and how it impacts the community as a whole. The Federal funding that comes back to the state is determined by the count and the  money is used for a number of things including roads and schools. They are trying to find ways to target the audience…

Sisters meet for first time after discovering each other through DNA test

Barb Pohl and Kathryn Graves share the same dad

DILWORTH, Minn. — It’s a day Barb Pohl will never forget. “I’m kinda nervous,” she says. Her whirlwind of emotions all started with an at-home genealogy test. “Both my brother and I took DNA from ancestory.com.” That one DNA kit turned into something much bigger just a week ago, when it connected her to a genetic match. “I found her,…

Douglas County home damaged by fire

The home sustained light to moderate smoke and fire damage

GARFIELD, Minn. — Crews responded to a home fire on Moe Hall Road around 8:30 Saturday morning in Garfield, Minnesota. Authorities received a 911 call saying the home was filling with smoke. Douglas County Sheriff’s Office Deputies found a fire on the exterior of the home adjacent to a wood stove chimney. Fire crews were able to fully extinguish the…

Sales of Junkyard Brewing’s new IPA goes to Australia wildfire relief

MOORHEAD, Minn. – The Australian bushfires has garnered sympathy from across the world, a Moorhead brewing company is doing its part to help. Junkyard Brewing releases it’s Five Day Rain, a New England style IPA with a promise that with for every can sold $1 would be donated toward relief efforts. This gesture of support towards people across the globe…

Moorhead Open House to Revamp Downtown

Community members gathered at the Moorhead Center Mall to voice their opinions on possible changes to the area

MOORHEAD, Minn. — For one Concordia student, making the move from Nepal to Moorhead wasn’t an easy transition. “Coming here, it was a whole new experience. For me, Moorhead is a very small city,” says Susham Bhujel. He says coming from Kathmandu, a city with over a million people living in it, to the F-M area was a bit of…

Man taken into custody after search near Moorhead’s Romkey Park

MOORHEAD, Minn. – A federal fugitive is arrested after a brief standoff in Moorhead. Authorities were investigating a suspicious person near Minnesota State University Moorhead around 12:30 on Thursday. A caller identified the man as 20-year-old Miguel Cooley, Junior. Cooley barricaded himself in a relative’s apartment near Romkey Park. After failed attempts to get him to come out, officers used…

UPDATE: Double Amputee Within 14 Months Prepares To Finally Return Home

"I know that God will take care of us and we do what we can to move forward," said Wendy Lee of Badger, Minnesota

ROSEAU, Minn. —  We have a quick update to a story we brought last Super Bowl Sunday on KVRR: Wendy Lee is finally going home! In case you missed her incredible story, the rural Badger, Minnesota woman had two leg amputations within 14 months. One was caused by a break in her foot in 2018 that became infected and spread. The…