Category Archives: Latest News
GF voters reject both school ballot issues
Voters rejected a pair of money "asks" by the Grand Forks School District in Tuesday's election. By a three to one margin residents said "no" to an $86 million dollar bond to fund a series of facility...
Doug Barrett Jun 22, 2021

Ambassador Motel ready to be razed
The Ambassador Motel in Grand Forks has a future date with a wrecking ball. The city council approved a demolition order for the former Inn on South Washington last night (Monday). The 22 unit motel w...
Doug Barrett Jun 22, 2021

Election Day: GF voters tackle 2 school issues
Voting is underway in today's (Tuesday) Grand Forks school election. On the ballot are two requests of voters: $86 million dollar bond to support facility needs - including a new K-8 campus on the cit...
Doug Barrett Jun 22, 2021

GF agrees to help fund summer events
The Grand Forks council has approved tapping unused CARES Act money to help fund a pair downtown events this summer. Under the plan $25,000 would go to assist the Downtown Development Association with...
Doug Barrett Jun 22, 2021

GF health officials ramp up vaccination sites
Grand Forks health officials have scheduled ten Mobile Vaccination Clinics this week - including stops in Manvel and Thompson. The outreach comes as Grand Forks County has posted back to back days wit...
Doug Barrett Jun 21, 2021

Former GFAFB woman shot and killed in MN
A Twin Cities woman was less than a week into her new marriage to a fellow Air Force veteran when she was allegedly shot to death by her ex-husband. Police say Lauri Deatherage was killed inside her R...
Doug Barrett Jun 21, 2021

Altru still eyeing fall construction startup
Altru is still working to jump-start its stalled hospital project in Grand Forks this fall. The health system paused the project last year due to the pandemic. In February Altru announced a restart wi...
Doug Barrett Jun 21, 2021

GF man arrested in gun related incident
A 56 year old Grand Forks man faces a charge of terrorizing after waving a firearm in the parking lot of a north side apartment this afternoon. Officers were dispatched to the 1200 block of North 39th...
Doug Barrett Jun 20, 2021

GF Business News: Interest rates...travel & quarters
The Federal Reserve signaled that it may act sooner than previously planned to start dialing back the low-interest-rate policies that have helped fuel a swift rebound from the pandemic recession but h...
Doug Barrett Jun 20, 2021

Bismarck man gets 15 years for raping unconscious teen girl
A Bismarck man who pleaded guilty to buying alcohol for a teenage girl and raping her while she was asleep or passed out has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Forty-three-year-old John Burnette II...
Doug Barrett Jun 19, 2021