Category Archives: Latest News

Business News: Digital billboards...job openings & new Twining School
The job market continues to defy the odds. Despite rising interest rates and high inflation, employers added 339-thousand jobs last month. Several sectors added jobs from construction to restaurants t...
Doug Barrett Jun 11, 2023

Victim injured during fight in GF
A scuffle among several juveniles near the Grand Forks Library on Thurs-day will result in charges after one of the participants brandished a gun. According to police the suspect used the weapon to st...
Doug Barrett Jun 09, 2023

EGF announces administrator finalists
East Grand Forks has released the names of the four finalists vying to be-come the city's next administrator. Two of Those seeking the job are in-ternal candidates. The hiring firm David Drown Associa...
Doug Barrett Jun 08, 2023

GF considers murals in residential neighborhoods
The placement of a large mural on the side of Valley Middle School was approved by the Grand Forks Planning and Zoning Commission last night - but barely. Current city code does not allow murals in re...
Doug Barrett Jun 08, 2023

ND Museum of Art reunited with missing sculpture
A piece of art that disappeared from the Grand Forks landscape last October has been found. The North Dakota Museum of Art says the so-called Garden Wheel disappeared Halloween weekend of 2022. The sc...
Doug Barrett Jun 08, 2023

GF district judge job draws a crowd
North Dakota's Judicial Nominating Committee has received applications from eight candidates for the new Northeast Central Judicial District judgeship to be chambered in Grand Forks. An additional 13 ...
Doug Barrett Jun 08, 2023

Burgum formally announces presidential candidacy
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum today (Wed) announced his candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, adding his name to the long list of contenders hoping to dent former President Donald...
Pat Sweeney Jun 07, 2023

EGF sets interview dates for city administrator
The candidate pool for the next city administrator in East Grand Forks is down to four finalists. The hiring firm David Drone Associates is assisting in the search process and presented the city with ...
Doug Barrett Jun 07, 2023

GF County pushes Fair Board agreement
The Grand Forks County Commission is hoping to finalize a land use agreement with the Fair Board ASAP with the pending jail and juvenile detention center construction projects drawing near. Fair offic...
Doug Barrett Jun 07, 2023

42nd Street project still searching for money
The $30 million dollars secured through a federal grant process will go a long way in building the long awaited 42nd Street grade separation project in Grand Forks - but a funding gap remains. The gra...
Doug Barrett Jun 06, 2023