Category Archives: Business News
NCTC responds to increasing COVID-19 activity
NCTC is making a shift in the way it delivers classroom learning. Due to escalating case counts of COVID-19 Northland is moving to a "lay low" period starting this week. The mitigation measure is in r...
Feb 01, 2022
Fufeng agreement sparks resident opposition
Dozens of residents from Falconer Township showed up at last night's (Monday) Grand Forks council meeting to hear more about plans to locate a corn milling facility in their backyard. The council got ...
Feb 01, 2022
ND Water Commission previews GF funding request
The North Dakota Water Commission will take up a request for a cost sharing agreement with Grand Forks on February 23rd regarding the proposed Fufeng Group project. The corn milling plant will need ar...
Jan 31, 2022
North Dakota receiving record funds for home heating costs
North Dakota is getting a record $46.4 million from the federal government to help low-income residents cover heating costs this winter, which is more than twice what the state gets in a typical year....
Jan 31, 2022
Judge upholds Minneapolis vaccine-or-test rule for eateries
A Hennepin County judge has upheld Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey's vaccine-or-test mandate for bar and restaurant customers after several business owners asked for a temporary restraining order against...
Jan 31, 2022
Business News: GF Target remodel...GFK & Alerus Center profits
A measure of prices that is closely tracked by the Federal Reserve rose 5.8% last year, the sharpest increase since 1982, as brisk consumer spending collided with snarled supply chains to raise the co...
Jan 30, 2022
Heitkamp, former Trump official join DC lobbying firm
Former North Dakota U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp and a former member of the Trump administration have been appointed co-chairs of a multi-national consulting and lobbying firm. Actum LLC says Heitkamp, al...
Jan 28, 2022
Bertagnolli named new head of Job Service ND
Pat Bertagnolli of Watford City has been appointed by Gov. Burgum as the new executive director of Job Service North Dakota. Burgum cited Bertagnolli's extensive background in workforce recruitment......
Jan 28, 2022
NDUS to review presidential pay plan
A committee of the state Board of Higher Education has been authorized to look at hiring a consultant to determine if North Dakota's college and university presidents are paid in-line with leaders of ...
Jan 28, 2022
Burgum aware of past history of developer
A man behind a nearly two-billion dollar plan for a crypto-currency mining data center near Williston has a long criminal background in Nevada. Rick Tabish was convicted and later found not guilty in ...
Jan 28, 2022