Category Archives: Latest News

GF City hall renovations wrapping up
The City of Grand Forks is getting close to unveiling the new look city council chambers. The final touches on the $1.8 million dollar make-over are being put in place with the goal of holding the fir...
Doug Barrett Sep 11, 2023

Business News: ND jobs...EGF park position & recall
The IRS is launching an effort to crack down on 1,600 millionaires and 75 large business partnerships that owe hundreds of millions of dollars in past due taxes. IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel says th...
Doug Barrett Sep 10, 2023

Brandt gets 5-year sentence in teen's death
A Glenfield (ND) man has been sentenced to five years in prison for running down another man with his car following a street dance in McHenry nearly a year ago. Forty-two-year-old Shannon Brandt had p...
Pat Sweeney Sep 08, 2023

42nd Street project could mean long closure
The decision to submit a second preferred design for a 42nd Street underpass in Grand Forks to the North Dakota DOT has its own set of pluses and minuses. The city council previously endorsed the B-1 ...
Doug Barrett Sep 08, 2023

French Fry feed draws a crowd
Plenty of spuds went down the hatch at last night's (Thursday) French Fry Feeding Frenzy at University Park in Grand Forks. Participants consumed 4,212 pounds of fries as part of the annual Potato Bow...
Doug Barrett Sep 08, 2023

Small fire evacuates EGF building
An early morning fire (Thursday) temporarily evacuated an addiction treatment center in East Grand Forks. The East Grand Forks Fire Department responded to Douglas Place on Gateway Drive shortly befor...
Doug Barrett Sep 07, 2023

EGF council receives 2024 budget update
The East Grand Forks council is sharpening up their pencils in an attempt to come up with $346 thousand dollars to close a proposed 2024 city budget gap. The council is trying to keep next year's levy...
Doug Barrett Sep 07, 2023

GF sales tax vote set for November
The Grand Forks council has set the date for a special election for extending a .75% sales tax for so-called quality of life projects. Voters will head to the polls November 14th to decide the fate of...
Doug Barrett Sep 06, 2023

GF council talks 42nd Street underpass
The Grand Forks council has agreed to advance not one...but two...designs for a 42nd Street underpass to the North Dakota Department of Transportation for further review. In addition to the so-called ...
Doug Barrett Sep 06, 2023

EGF temporarily suspends SRO program
East Grand Forks is the latest Minnesota city to put its School Resource Officer program on hold. The city council agreed tonight (Tuesday) to temporarily suspend the SRO agreement with School Distric...
Doug Barrett Sep 05, 2023