Category Archives: Latest News

East Grand Forks Woman Sentenced on Drug Charges
(File image) (KNOX) - An East Grand Forks woman was sentenced to 73 months for selling fentanyl to an informant. Tracey Hangsleben, 50, sold 40 fentanyl pills to the informant in January 2024. ...
Bill Dubensky Jul 24, 2025

Grand Forks Police Conduct Alcohol Compliance Checks
(Grand Forks Police Department image) (KNOX) -The Grand Forks Police Department conducted alcohol compliance checks with the assistance of area youths on July 22. A total of 21 businesses were ...
Bill Dubensky Jul 24, 2025

Street Closure Next Week in Grand Forks
(File image) (KNOX) - Crews will be closing 30th Avenue South from South 34th Street to South 38th Street for a road reconstruction project. The project will begin on Monday, July 28. Work will...
Bill Dubensky Jul 24, 2025

City of East Grand Forks Looking to Upgrade Garbage Contract
(File image) (KNOX) - The City of East Grand Forks is looking at an upgrade to its garbage hauling contract with Countrywide Sanitation. This comes after the sale of Countrywide to Waste Manage...
Bill Dubensky Jul 23, 2025

North Dakota to Get Federal Money for After School Programs
(File image) (KNOX)- The state of North Dakota will receive federal education money for after school programs. The Office of Management and Budget approved freezing nearly $1.5 billion in grant...
Bill Dubensky Jul 23, 2025

One Year After Spill Minnesota Coal Plant Under Scrutiny
In 2008, one billion gallons of toxic coal ash spilled from the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant. (Photo courtesy Earthjustice via Minnesota News Connection) (Mike Moen-Minnes...
Bill Dubensky Jul 23, 2025

AI Data Centers are Using More Power
(Dana DiFilippo/New Jersey Monitor via the North Dakota Monitor) (North Dakota Monitor) - Regular energy consumers, not corporations, will bear the brunt of the increased costs of a boom in art...
Bill Dubensky Jul 23, 2025

Farmers Turn to 500 foot Plastic Storage Bags in Wake of Storm Damage
(Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor) (North Dakota Monitor) - When June storms demolished three grain bins that Dean Bjornson had planned to use to store much of this year's crop, his reaction was...
Bill Dubensky Jul 23, 2025

North Dakota Seeks to Use Former Legislative Map While Voting Rights Case Proceeds
(Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor) (North Dakota Monitor) - The state of North Dakota urged the U.S. Supreme Court to let it use its preferred legislative district map after an a...
Bill Dubensky Jul 23, 2025

Mural at the School for the Blind Will go Before Grand Forks City Council at a Later Date
(North Dakota School for the Blind image) (KNOX) - Due to legal standards, the mural at the North Dakota School for the Blind in Grand Forks will go before city council at a later date. Grand F...
Bill Dubensky Jul 22, 2025