Category Archives: Latest News

ND sex offender website offers new features
North Dakota's sex offender website has a new look. Attorney general Drew Wrigley says the goal is to make it easier to find detailed information about registered sex offenders. Wrigley says the chang...
Doug Barrett Jun 22, 2022

GF council begins 2023 budget review
The Grand Forks council got its first look at a major portion of the proposed 2023 budget last night (Monday). The salary plan calls for a 4.13% increase in wages next year. The bump would cost the ci...
Doug Barrett Jun 21, 2022

Moving Bakken gas to eastern North Dakota
North Dakota Pipeline Authority director Justin Kringstad says there's still a lot of interest in a pipeline to bring Bakken natural gas to eastern North Dakota. North Dakota would provide $150 millio...
Doug Barrett Jun 20, 2022

GF police investigate spent shell casings
Grand Forks police are investigating a weapons violation complaint. Officers were called Sunday to the 1900 block of South 12th Street just before 5:00 p.m. When they arrived they found several shell ...
Doug Barrett Jun 20, 2022

GF Business News: CAT...inflation & sugar
Americans trimmed their spending unexpectedly in May compared with the month before, underscoring how surging inflation on daily necessities like gas is causing them to be more cautious about buying d...
Doug Barrett Jun 19, 2022

Strong winds blow through GF/EGF (updated)
Strong winds kept Grand Forks fire and Xcel Energy crews busy this afternoon. Brocken tree branches toppled a handful of power lines. The Xcel Energy outage page listed over 1,500 customers without po...
Doug Barrett Jun 18, 2022

4 North Dakotans file suit to reinstate UND women's hockey
Four recent North Dakota high school graduates have filed a discrimination lawsuit seeking to reinstate the UND women's hockey program. The complaint filed Thursday comes three years after a judge dis...
Pat Sweeney Jun 17, 2022

ND tax relief plans under review
An interim Legislative committee is looking at two proposals designed to lessen people's property tax burden. Republican Senator Don Schiable says his proposal is based on action in the 2013 session, ...
Doug Barrett Jun 17, 2022

Special legislative session on budget surplus unlikely (Update)
It appears chances are dead for a special legislative session that could have brought billions of dollars in tax cuts and new spending in Minnesota. Democratic Gov. Tim Walz told reporters late Thursd...
Doug Barrett Jun 17, 2022

ND governor targets fellow Republicans to mixed results
North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum's expensive effort to influence the GOP primary and reshape the Legislature with more people who support his spending and policy goals was a mixed bag. On of m...
Doug Barrett Jun 16, 2022