WADENA, Minn. (KVRR) – Firefighters fight flames at a Wadena home twice in around 11 hours. The first call came in Monday around 4:15 PM on the 10000 block of Mohawk Street. The Wadena Fire Department says crews saw flames coming out of an attached garage. Firefighters were able to get the flames out before they spread to the home….
MINNESOTA & NORTH DAKOTA (KVRR) – On this Labor Day, what are some local labor laws and how do they impact us? Minnesota’s minimum wage law is unique because it goes up each year with inflation. Wages rise 2.5 percent from this year in The Land of 10,000 Lakes. This year, someone with a minimum wage job from a large…
ROLLAG, Minn. (KVRR) – It’s been happening for 69 years. The Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion is an event farmers and machinery fans look forward to every Labor Day Weekend. The theme every year is to show how people used steam to get the job done. The event is full of hot air. The good kind. At the end of…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — Kennedy, Minnesota native Dr. Josh Deere is named the new president of Altru. Deere has been medical director of primary care for seven years and most recently the interim chief medical officer since February. That is when Dr. Steven Weiser was forced out as Altru’s president. Deere earned his medical degree from UND and completed…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Epilepsy Foundation Minnesota hosts a walk at M.B. Johnson Park in Moorhead to share support and resources with people with the disorder. The eight walks across the state are the biggest fundraising events of the year. The foundation is praising the Seizure Smart Schools Act that was signed into law last summer. It makes sure every…
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A judge has again blocked a trigger law banning abortion in North Dakota as he weighs a lawsuit from the state’s lone abortion clinic. The clinic argues that the law violates the state constitution. Burleigh County District Judge Bruce Romanick on Thursday granted the motion for a preliminary injunction sought by the Red River Women’s Clinic…
WARREN, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — An attorney from Warren, Minnesota is now charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of his ex-wife. 31-year-old Anders Odegaard was arrested at his home Tuesday afternoon after two of the couple’s five children stopped a man and asked him to call 911, saying their mother was bleeding and needed help. The complaint says Odegaard…
CASSELTON, N.D. (KVRR) — State leaders like Gov. Doug Burgum, Sen. John Hoeven and Sen. Kevin Cramer came to Central Cass High School to celebrate after they and other project leaders break ground of a soybean plant near the school. Both the North Dakota and Minnesota Soybean Processors teams are behind the project which they say will have a positive…
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (FOX 9) – A man died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the Scheels store in Eden Prairie Center, creating a panic and sending the mall into lockdown Monday evening. Eden Prairie police say they responded to the mall around 7:25 p.m. for reports of a shot fired. At the scene, they say they found one man…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – A pro life organization and the Diocese of Crookston hold a rally across from the Red River Women’s Clinic’s new Moorhead location. They are grateful abortions could soon no longer be lawful in North Dakota, but are concerned the state’s only abortion clinic moved three miles away where the procedure is legal. Pro Life Action Ministries…
