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Cass County Electric expects full restoration of power Thursday

Beltrami County Electric sends other co-op crews home as they get down to just four accounts without power

June 26, 2025

TJ Nelson,

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — One of the power companies working non-stop to restore power after last Friday’s storms has a promising update. Cass County Electric says as of this morning, just 48 accounts remain without power. They say line crews and field technicians are in the field and continuing restoration work. They are also on track to complete full restoration…

A massive tech outage is causing worldwide disruptions. Here’s what we know

July 19, 2024

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(AP Photo/Richard Drew)NEW YORK (AP/KVRR) – Much of the world faced online disarray Friday as a widespread technology outage affected companies and services across industries — grounding flights, knocking banks and hospital systems offline and media outlets off air. At the heart of the massive disruption is CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm that provides software to scores of companies worldwide. The company says the problem occurred…

Lunde Auto Center in Fargo Among Thousands of Dealerships Impacted by Computer Outage

June 20, 2024

TJ Nelson,

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/CNN) — Lunde Auto Center in Fargo is just one of thousands of auto dealers being impacted by a nationwide computer system outage. Software provider CDK Global says it’s continuing its investigation after a second cyber incident, impacting 15,000 dealerships. The software is used for things like deal negotiations and service records. CDK says most of their systems…

Lineworkers Making Tremendous Progress Restoring Power After Christmas Ice Storm

January 4, 2024

TJ Nelson,

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR:UPDATE 5 P.M.) — Cass County Electric crews continue to make progress getting the lights back on for hundreds of its members. They are down to 111 members without power. That is down from a high of 4,600 after the Christmas ice storm. Over 800 broken poles have been replaced. Lineworkers are working through the evening and will…

Cass County Commissioners declare an emergency for costs from ice storm

January 2, 2024

TJ Nelson,

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Cass County Commissioners declare an emergency to help cover the costs from the winter storm from December 25-27, 2023. Last week, Gov. Doug Burgum declared a statewide emergency for widespread utility infrastructure damage caused by the ice storm. Some communities have already spent thousands of dollars to cleanup trees and branches. Emergency Manager Jim Prochniak says…

Cass County Electric Making Progress, Power Restored to 400 More Members

Around 675 Members Still Without Power

January 2, 2024

TJ Nelson,

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR:8:45pm Update) — Cass County Electric is providing its members with an update as crews continue to work to restore power after the Christmas ice storm. Power was restored to around 300 members on Monday and another 100 on Tuesday but there are still 570 members without power. The majority of outages remain around the Valley City, Fingal,…

Cass County Electric Still Working To Restore Power to Around 1,000 Members

January 1, 2024

TJ Nelson,

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Cass County Electric is still working to restore power to all of its members after the Christmas Day ice storm. As of Monday morning they had just under 1,000 members without power. The majority of them are in the Valley City service area which still has more than 500 customers without power and just as many…

Otter Tail Power Company fixing outages

November 9, 2022

Site Staff,

NORTH DAKOTA (KVRR) – Otter Tail Power Company crews are working to restore outages. The business says customers in Amenia, Buffalo, Casselton, Ellendale and Mapleton are in the dark. Crews are working to remove ice from power lines. Categories: Local News, North Dakota News Tags: ND, north dakota, OTTER TAIL POWER COMPANY, OUTAGE, power

Cyber attack affects 60,000 Arvig customers in Minnesota

October 26, 2022

Jim Monk,

PERHAM, Minn. (KVRR-KDLM) – A ransomware attack on Tuesday left thousands of Minnesota customers without internet, phone and TV services. Arvig says about 60,000 customers across the state were affected. The company says service was disrupted service for more than three hours. “This attack failed due to the extra layers of protection implemented by Arvig’s cybersecurity team,” according to the…

ND Job Service websites down since Sunday

July 1, 2022

Jim Monk,

BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – Two websites that serve Job Service North Dakota have now been offline for nearly a week due to what the department is calling a vendor service issue. The database that allows job seekers to search for jobs, as well as the site which houses labor market information are affected by the outage. The outage, which began…