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Sen. Hoeven Hosts Meeting in Grand Forks on U.S. Postal Service
(KNOX Radio photo) (KNOX) -During a meeting at Grand Forks City Hall Monday afternoon on the U.S. Postal Service, Cecile Wehrman of the North Dakota Newspaper Association expressed the problems that m...
Bill Dubensky Aug 27, 2024

'I missed you all summer!'
(KNOX) - The school bell rang at 8:20 a.m. Tuesday for Grand Forks students grades K through nine. New Ben Franklin principal Stacy Skarperud has an enrollment of about 360 students. Twining School at...
Jim Johnson Aug 27, 2024

UND Athletics posts hockey ticket information
(KNOX) - UND Athletics and Ralph Engelstad Arena have jointly announced single game hockey ticket information for the upcoming 2024-25 season, slated to begin on Oct. 5 with an exhibition contest agai...
Jim Johnson Aug 27, 2024

Traffic signals to be replaced in East Grand Forks
(KNOX) - The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MNDOT) will be starting a traffic signal replacement project at the intersection of Demers Ave and 4th Street NW on August 30. The older traffic si...
Jim Johnson Aug 27, 2024

Other Categories of Taxes Would be Affected by North Dakota Property Tax Measure
(Getty Images via North Dakota Monitor) (North Dakota Monitor) -A ballot measure to repeal property taxes based on assessed value wouldn't just eliminate standard residential, commercial and agricultu...
Bill Dubensky Aug 27, 2024

Former North Dakota Federal Prosecutor Dies
(AP) - A former federal prosecutor who handled such prominent cases as the 1977 trial of Native American activist Leonard Peltier has died. Lynn Crooks died on Sunday, the North Dakota U.S. Att...
Bill Dubensky Aug 27, 2024

North Dakota Tribal Food Assistance Program Facing Problems After Warehouse Consolidation
The federal commodity foods program for Spirit Lake Nation is running out of staples such as fruit juice, frozen veggies, beans and noodles. (Grace Fiori/Buffalo's Fire) (North Dakota Monitor) ...
Bill Dubensky Aug 27, 2024

Minnesota State Fair-Goers Scorched by Heat Wave
Seven-year-old Harper Perkins, center, and her sister Brielle, of Princeton, Minn., cool off in a misting fountain at the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights, Minn., on Monday, Aug. 26, 2024. (AP P...
Bill Dubensky Aug 27, 2024

Nature lovers and Minnesota hunters look forward to Labor Day weekend
(KNOX) - Walk-in Access areas in Minnesota will be open for public use begin September 1 through May 31, 2025... with the purchase of a three-dollar pass. The DNR program pays landowners to allow publ...
Jim Johnson Aug 27, 2024 Minnesota Department of Natural Resources logo

Holding schools accountable for chronic absenteeism
(KNOX) - Grand Forks High School principals are addressing chronic absenteeism. Red River principal Kris Arason and Central principal Jon Strandell feel the number of absences since the COVID pandemic...
Jim Johnson Aug 26, 2024