Category Archives: Latest News
GF & EGF home sales jump in June
Home sales in Grand Forks - East Grand Forks posted their largest tally of the year in June. A total of 95 homes...townhomes...and condos exchanged hands last month. That equals the number of properti...
Jul 10, 2023
ND insurance fraud cases experience uptick
North Dakota's Insurance Commissioner says his office has seen an uptick in insurance fraud cases. Jon Godfread says whenever the economy dips a bit, fraud spikes upward. He says it's kept his fraud u...
Jul 10, 2023
GFSO searches for sex offender who cut off monitoring bracelet
The Grand Forks County Sheriff's Office is searching for a man who cut off his monitoring bracelet on Thursday. Twenty-three-year-old Bill Brown Jr. was sentenced to 180 days in jail for failure to re...
Jul 07, 2023
GF attempted murder suspect at large since May is in custody
An attempted murder suspect from Grand Forks at large since May is now in custody. Grand Forks Police say 25-year-old Omar Martinez was apprehended Thursday evening by the U-S Marshals High Plains Fug...
Jul 07, 2023
Odegaard enters Alford plea in ex-wife's death
A former lawyer from Warren (MN) has now pleaded guilty to the murder of his former wife last August. Thirty-two-year-old Anders Odegaard submitted an Alford plea Thursday in Marshall County District ...
Jul 07, 2023
EGF Council puts moratorium on recreational marijuana
While the sale of recreational marijuana becomes legal in Minnesota on August 1st, it will not be legal - yet -- in East Grand Forks. The city council on Wednesday voted unanimously in favor of a mora...
Jul 06, 2023
EGF to interview 2 in-house candidates for city administrator
The East Grand Forks City Council has voted to interview the two remaining finalists for the job of city administrator. Earlier, two of the initial four finalists withdrew their names, and the remaini...
Jul 06, 2023
GF Council OKs tax exemptions for Memorial Village II, Epitome Energy
The Grand Forks City Council has approved a 95-percent PILOT exemption (Payment in Lieu of Taxes) over 20 years for the Memorial Village II project -- a five-story mixed-use building near University A...
Jul 06, 2023
Fargo man sentenced in GF shooting incident
A Fargo man has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison after pleading guilty to three of six felony charges in connection with a Grand Forks shooting incident in 2022. Twenty-year-old Omar D...
Jul 03, 2023
NWS: GFK Airport posted warmest June on record
The National Weather Service in Grand Forks has released climate stats for the month of June. It was the warmest June on record at the Grand Forks International Airport, which has kept records since 1...
Jul 03, 2023