Category Archives: Latest News

ND Health Department tweaks COVID-19 dashboard
As part of the shift from pandemic to an endemic phase of COVID-19 the North Dakota Health Department has ended its daily dashboard for reporting cases. Instead the department will compile a weekly re...
Doug Barrett Mar 18, 2022

NWS: Spring thaw has finally arrived
The spring thaw season is underway up and down the Red River Valley. The National Weather Service expects generally favorable melt conditions to continue for the next few days - with things picking up...
Doug Barrett Mar 18, 2022

GF/EGF MPO reviews bridges and bikes
The need for a fourth bridge linking Grand Forks and East Grand Forks was back on the agenda of the Metropolitan Planning Organization on Wednesday. M-P-O members invited representatives from the Nort...
Doug Barrett Mar 17, 2022

Zelenskyy pleads for help in impassioned speech to Congress
Ukrainian President Zelensky spoke to Congress Wednesday - repeating his appeal for a no fly zone over Ukraine. The White House hours later announcing another $800 million dollars in military aid inst...
Doug Barrett Mar 17, 2022

ND oil development up and down
North Dakota's mineral resources director says even with high oil prices, oil companies are reluctant to bring more drilling rigs to the Bakken. Lynn Helms says one reason is workforce. He says anothe...
Doug Barrett Mar 16, 2022

GF Fufeng petitions still making the rounds
Supporters of a petition effort to place the proposed Fufeng corn milling plant on the ballot in Grand Forks face a pending deadline for collecting signatures. Organizers are using signs and mass mail...
Doug Barrett Mar 16, 2022

GFPD arrests female driver following pursuit
A Fargo woman faces numerous charges after driving through a Grand Forks construction zone last night (Monday). Grand Forks police say just before 11:30 p.m. an officer spotted a small passenger car i...
Doug Barrett Mar 15, 2022

GF School District still eyeing bond issue
The Grand Forks School Board agreed last night (Monday) to utilize one million dollars from the voter approved ten mill increase in the building fund for bonds to help jump start facility needs. The m...
Doug Barrett Mar 15, 2022

GF reviews waste water and English Coulee plans
The Grand Forks council will likely go the route of a Construction Management at Risk delivery method for future upgrades at the Wastewater Treatment Plant. The four phase plan carries a hefty bill wi...
Doug Barrett Mar 15, 2022

Shooting in Mahnomen County involves deputy
A woman is hospitalized following an exchange of gunfire involving a deputy with the Mahnomen County Sheriff's Department. Authorities say it started around 1:30 Sunday morning when the deputy attempt...
Doug Barrett Mar 14, 2022