FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — People in Horace, far southwest Fargo and southern West Fargo are rejoicing after a major road construction project finishes. Crews removed the barricades late Saturday afternoon on the 52nd Avenue South project between 63rd Street and Sheyenne. Work started last fall to urbanize this section of road and included replacing the bridge over the Sheyenne River…
WEST FARGO (KVRR/KFGO) – The City of West Fargo has a new finance director. Willy Galindo will take over the role late next month. He will be responsible for the city’s accounting, treasury, utility billing, budgeting, payroll, and investments. Galindo comes from Palmdale, California where he has been the city’s senior financial analyst since 2017, and helped manage a half-billion…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KFGO/KVRR) – Family and Prairie Heights are naming the man who was shot and killed in the church parking lot yesterday morning as 25-year-old Austin Strom. Strom’s aunt, Rochelle Rech, has created a GoFundMe campaign to help her sister, Robin, with the burden of funeral costs. Rech says in a post, “He was only 25 years old…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – West Fargo police on Saturday morning responded to a report of shots fired at Prairie Heights Church at 319 32nd Avenue E. Upon arrival, officers were informed that an altercation had taken place between three individuals. During the encounter, one person sustained a gunshot wound. The gunshot victim was transported to a local hospital where…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Bernie’s Wines and Liquors in West Fargo is the first liquor store to get a forensic ID scanner to help combat underage drinking through a new partnership. West Fargo Police and Fargo Cass Public Health are teaming up to offer the scanners. Chief Pete Nielsen says the fake IDs in our region are increasing in…
File PictureFARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Red River Valley Swat is changing course and moving its training on Thursday from downtown Fargo to West Fargo. The Downtown Fargo Street Fair begins Thursday morning and it was believed to be a potential target last year by the man who ambushed police. SWAT initially planned to train around an old gas station on…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Just days after Traditions Restaurant and Bar in West Fargo closed, the city is losing another restaurant. Amy Tran, the daughter of the owners of Peking Restaurant, writing on social media that they are closing on August 24. The first Chinese restaurant in West Fargo will have had a thirty year run. Tran says throughout…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A cement truck flipped to its side on I-94 in West Fargo around 10:30 a.m., closing a lane of traffic for a couple hours. North Dakota Highway Patrol says 49-year-old Corey Cook was driving west of the Sheyenne Street interchange when he hit a soft asphalt patch. The truck lost control and overturned. Debris spilled…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – West Fargo firefighters responded to a fire at a home at 3008 7th Street East at 3:19 a.m. Friday. Fire Chief Dan Fuller says a passerby thought it was a bonfire at first but realized it was a fire burning up against the house and waking up the residents living there. Fuller says there are…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A man involved in a motorcycle crash last Wednesday has died from his injuries. North Dakota Highway Patrol says 33-year-old Douglas Neve, of Fargo, died at Sanford Hospital Sunday. Neve was driving in the 3400 block of Sheyenne Street in West Fargo around 9:30 Wednesday night when he hit the median curb then a light…
