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Grand Forks Woman Pleads Guilty
(File image) (KNOX) -According to court records a Grand Forks woman pleaded guilty to third-degree murder for selling fentanyl to a young woman who fatally overdosed in East Grand Forks. Rachel...
Bill Dubensky Nov 20, 2025

According To a Report Minnesota Cities Continue Climate Work
(Photo by TW Farlow/Getty Images via Minnesota Reformer) (Minnesota Reformer) - Minnesotans stared at their screens in horror last June as the raging Blue Earth River swallowed a beloved countr...
Bill Dubensky Nov 20, 2025

North Dakota Sends Out SNAP Money
(File image) (North Dakota Monitor) - North Dakota has issued federal food assistance payments for November, but the effects of the federal government shutdown will linger, one food pantry oper...
Bill Dubensky Nov 20, 2025

Armstrong Says Ethics Commissioner Does Not Have The Support to Keep Serving
State Sen. Kathy Hogan, left, Gov. Kelly Armstrong, right. (Photo by Jacob Orledge/North Dakota Monitor) (North Dakota Monitor) - North Dakota Ethics Commission member Murray Sagsveen no longer...
Bill Dubensky Nov 20, 2025

Study Finds Water Deprived Grasslands Could Benefit From Solar Shade
(Adobe Stock via Prairie News Service) (By Mike Moen. Prairie News Service ) - In 2026, North Dakota could see construction of its first utility-scale solar farm and as it dips its toes into th...
Bill Dubensky Nov 19, 2025 Rows of solar panels out in a grassy open field amid a sunny cloud filled day.

Grand Forks Police Department Earns Accreditation From The Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies
(Grand Forks Police Department image) (KNOX) - The Grand Forks Police Department has earned its fourth international accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agenc...
Bill Dubensky Nov 19, 2025

Weird Al Yankovic Coming to Grand Forks Next Year
(File image) (KNOX) - Weird Al Yankovic is coming to Grand Forks at the Alerus Center stop on his 2026 summer tour. Weird Al will be at the Alerus Center on Saturday August 29th at 8 pm. Public...
Bill Dubensky Nov 19, 2025

R.D. Offutt Agrees to Pay Hundreds Minnesota Workers For Sick Leave Violation
(Getty Images via Minnesota Reformer) (Minnesota Reformer) - Fargo-based R.D. Offutt Farms, one of the largest potato growers in the world, agreed to pay $82,770 to 442 workers for failing to p...
Bill Dubensky Nov 19, 2025

Grand Forks Fire Department Responds to Burger King on Gateway Drive
(File image) (KNOX) - Tuesday night the Grand Forks Fire Department was dispatched to a commercial structure fire at the vacant Burger King Restaurant on Gateway Drive. When crews arrived on sc...
Bill Dubensky Nov 19, 2025

Cause of Grain Elevator Fire in Traill County May Never be Determined
(File image) (KNOX) - The Mayville fire chief said that the cause of a grain elevator fire that destroyed the structure at O'Brien Seed on Saturday evening may never be determined. The grain el...
Bill Dubensky Nov 19, 2025