Category Archives: Latest News

Man accused of fatally stabbing wife taken into custody (Update)
Update 1:00 PM: An Oklee (MN) man wanted in connection with the July 9th murder of his wife has been apprehended. Forty-four-year-old Eric Reinbold was arrested without incident this (Wed) morning abo...
Doug Barrett Aug 04, 2021

EGF still hoping to make a deal with MNDOT
A deal could be in the works to allow East Grand Forks to swap out federal "subtarget" highway dollars in 2022 for funding in 2023. The city asked the Minnesota Department of Transportation to delay t...
Doug Barrett Aug 04, 2021

Jury picked in ND quadruple murder case
Update: The quadruple murder trial of 47-year old Chad Isaak in Mandan (ND) is underway. Isaak is accused of killing RJR Maintenance and Management co-owner Robert Fakler and three employees in April ...
Doug Barrett Aug 04, 2021

GF takes steps to raze north side motel
Grand Forks will move forward with the purchase and demolition of the former Grand Forks Inn & Suites Motel. The city council - meeting as the JDA - agreed to buy the vacant building from American...
Doug Barrett Aug 03, 2021

GF council keeps aquarium plans afloat
With some hesitancy the Grand Forks council voted last night (Monday) to continue discussions with a company looking to locate an ecosystem aquarium at the Grand Cities Mall. The proposed site for the...
Doug Barrett Aug 03, 2021

Project promoted to pipe river water across North Dakota
North Dakota officials are promoting a decades-long idea of piping Missouri River water across the state to central and eastern North Dakota to combat future drought conditions. A groundbreaking is pl...
Doug Barrett Aug 02, 2021

North Dakota man to stand trial in attack that killed 4
More than two years after four employees of a North Dakota property management firm were slain, the man charged in their deaths is going on trial. Chad Isaak is a chiropractor and Navy veteran who liv...
Doug Barrett Aug 02, 2021

NWS: July 2021....hot & dry
The month of July was warmer and much drier than average in Grand Forks. The average temperature at the NWS office was 74.5 degrees - or 4.7 degrees warmer than normal. It turned out to be the 6th war...
Doug Barrett Aug 02, 2021 NWS graphic

Business News: GF sales tax...Alerus Center & UND Graduate Center
U.S. economy grew at a solid 6.5% annual rate last quarter in another sign that the nation has achieved a sustained recovery from the pandemic recession. The total size of the economy has now surpasse...
Doug Barrett Aug 01, 2021

Man who sold Trump wares gets jury trial
The North Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that a Wisconsin Trump supporter found guilty of an infraction for using public grounds in Bismarck for commercial purposes without a permit is entitled to a j...
Doug Barrett Jul 31, 2021