Fargo-Moorhead News

Today in Fargo-Moorhead: Declining temps, Christkindlmrkt on the way

Hello, 60 degrees again! We’ll drop to highs closer to 50 the rest of the week with some blustery winds.

Did anyone out this way hear or feel anything out-of-the-ordinary last night? Folks in Bemidji did — experts are suspecting a meteor.

Prepare for the hogs: Invasive species “super pigs” are making their way from Canada to Minnesota.

Minnesota’s Women’s Pro Hockey Leaugue is making all sorts of progress with new jerseys, rosters and staff already in place.

North Dakota State University’s new program covers tuition and fees for Pell grant recipients whose families make less than $80,000.

A well-known Moorhead photographer has been sent to prison on child sex charges.

From the Fargo Forum: “The North Dakota Poll shows most voters oppose the state’s new restrictive abortion law and a measure that would require double approval for constitutional amendments.”

Folkways Christkindlmarkt is coming this weekend. What else is happening in your neck of the Fargo-Moorhead woods (er, fields)? Let MPR News producer Amy Felegy know at afelegy@mpr.org. Also, take our Fargo-Moorhead news survey.

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(Oh, and if you’re feeling particularly down about this winter, perhaps take some lessons from our meteorologist Sven Sundgaard, who went to the actual arctic on a “learning vacation.” He learned about climate change’s effect on polar bears.)