WOLVERTON, MINN. (KVRR/KFGO) – There was a large fire Thursday night in Wolverton, Minnesota. The Wilkin County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call shortly before 6 p.m. on a report of a garage on fire with propane tanks located nearby at 409 1st Street. Deputies and the Sabin Fire Department responded and a short time later, the Barnesville and Christine…
Emerson’s mug shot from the Cass County jail.WILKIN COUNTY, MN – A Fargo man is under arrest following a burglary in Wilkin County. The Wilkin County Sheriff’s Office says 40-year-old Benjamin Emerson arrived at and parked in the garage of a home on Friday, December 20th. He then tried to load a safe from the home into his truck by…
WILKIN COUNTY, MINN. (KVRR-KFGO) – A Breckenridge, Minnesota, man was injured in a crash in Wilkin County around 9:30 Thursday night. Minnesota State Patrol says a Grand Cherokee driven by 28-year-old Spencer Sikorski was southbound on Highway 75 when it struck a bridge barrier north of County Road 24. He was transported to CHI St.Francis Medical Center in Breckenridge for…
Summit Carbon Solutions plans to build a 2,500-mile network of CO2 pipelines across the Midwest to capture carbon produced by ethanol plants and then sequester it underground in North Dakota. (Courtesy of Summit Carbon Solutions)FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (Jeff Beach – North Dakota Monitor) An administrative law judge report recommends that Minnesota approve a small segment of the massive Summit Carbon…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – The National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning for eastern North Dakota, and west-central and northwest Minnesota until 9 p.m. Monday. Dry conditions combined with strong wind prompted the warning. Some counties affected include Cass, Grand Forks, Traill, Steele, and Barnes in North Dakota, and Clay, Norman, Becker, Otter Tail, and Wilkin Counties…
ROTHSAY, Minn. (KVRR) – The Wilkin County Sheriff’s Office is reporting that a seven-year-old child from Rothsay has died and an investigation is underway. On Wednesday, emergency crews from Rothsay Rescue responded to a call for an unresponsive child in the 100 Block of 2nd Ave. NW close to 3 p.m. The child was taken to the Lake Region Hospital…
FARGO (KVRR) – Two local animal shelters were involved in the rescue of 17 dogs from a “dilapidated farmhouse” in Wilkin County. Homeward Animal Shelter and 4 Luv of Dog Rescue accepted the dogs after they were seized on January 17. Homeward took in 10 of the dogs, the other 7 went to 4 Luv of Dog. One of the…
OTTER TAIL COUNTY, Minn. (KVRR) — A Moorhead woman is jailed in Otter Tail County following a high-speed pursuit late Tuesday night. Thirty-eight-year-old Crystal Borseth is being held for fleeing a police officer. A Minnesota State Trooper was on I-94 near Rothsay around 10:30 p.m. when he spotted Borseth’s vehicle. It was involved in an earlier pursuit with Alexandria police….
WILKIN CO., Minn. (KVRR) — Work is set to resume on the majority of the nearly $10 million Whiskey Creek restoration project. The 30-mile-long creek drains 157 square miles in Wilkin and Otter Tail counties. The 3.1-mile-long third phase of the project is designed to improve water quality and quantity and wildlife habitat. It’s along a 20-mile-long Red River tributary…
BRECKENRIDGE, M.N. (KVRR) — The rapid melt continues and that is leaving some roads partially or totally covered in flood water. That includes a section of Wilkin County Road 16 northeast of Breckenridge. Crews are working to locate, barricade and flag troubled spots in the county. The scene of flooded fields and impassable roads was the normal in some spots…
