6/22 | 2:00 p.m. Update: Bemidji area: We have 55 lineworkers in Bemidji. Crews energized a few thousand customers this morning and they keep making safe and efficient progress. Additional materials and equipment needed for continued restoration will arrive throughout the day. Crews will be working hard toward full restoration over the next few days. Fergus Falls area: Restoration from…
GRAFTON, N.D. (KVRR) — The Jail here at Walsh County Law Enforcement Center has both inmates and law enforcement dealing with a lack of spacing, plumbing issues, safety, and more. “What we’re doing now is more or less putting a band-aid on the plumbing and heating, and air conditioning problems. So, they put cast iron pipes in the concrete floor…
CANDO, N.D. (KVRR) — A man with a firearm is arrested after a domestic incident this afternoon in Cando, North Dakota in Towner County. 25-year-old Isaiah Lacey was taken into custody and is now at Heart of America Correctional Center in Rugby. The sheriff’s office was contacted around 3 p.m. that Lacey was in a house with another adult and…
RUGBY, N.D. (KVRR) — A Devils Lake woman killed in a rollover near Rugby has been identified as 73-year-old Cynthia Meyer. Highway Patrol reports Meyer’s vehicle left Highway 2 sometime Monday. It hit an approach, vaulted, rolled onto its roof and came to rest in a grove of trees. She wasn’t found by officers until Tuesday afternoon after someone reported…
PIERCE COUNTY, N.D. (KVRR) – A driver is dead after a crash on Highway 2 just east of Rugby, North Dakota. A 15-year-old boy from Rugby in a pickup was stopped at an intersection three miles east of town. He drove into the intersection and hit an SUV going eastbound. The SUV rolled into a ditch. The SUV driver, a…
GRAND FORKS COUNTY, N.D. (KVRR) – A Rugby man is dead following a crash on Highway 2 on Jan. 12. Seventy-four-year-old John Gustafson was driving an SUV on the icy highway around 9:00 AM three-and-a-half-miles east of Niagara, North Dakota. The Highway Patrol says he lost control of the vehicle, it slid off the road and into the ditch and…
FARGO, N.D.–The North Dakota Department of Transportation and the North Dakota Highway Patrol are closing roadways due to heavy snow and wind. I-94 is closed westbound from Bismarck to Fargo and eastbound from Bismarck to Valley City. I-29 is closed northbound and southbound from Grand Forks to the Canadian Border. US Highway 2 is closed eastbound and westbound from Rugby…
OBERON, N.D. — A semi hauling cattle was traveling from Rugby, North Dakota when it rolled into the ditch. It happened three miles north of Oberon along Highway 281 around 7:30 Tuesday morning. The trailer was hauling nearly 70 head of cattle. Area ranchers helped transport them to Devils Lake to be looked over for any injuries. The driver of…
RUGBY, ND — Rugby, North Dakota is once again the geographic center of North America. The town of 2,800 people lost the title last year after the city allowed its trademark to lapse. Hanson’s Bar in Robinson, North Dakota snatched the title away. Rugby officials said in a statement that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has returned the trademark…
Facebook RUGBY, N.D. — A man is dead after being hit by a train in Rugby, North Dakota. The North Dakota Highway Patrol says an SUV was stopped near the train tracks on Main Street early this morning. Howard Duck, 41, then tried to go around the barricades and was struck by the train. Duck was thrown from the SUV…
