Category Archives: Business News

The bipartisan infrastructure package has passed. It totals more than $1.2 trillion dollars. $110B on highways, roads, and bridges. $66B in passenger rail. $65B for the nation's power grid. $55B in wa...

Hershey is expanding its salty snack portfolio with the purchase of North Dakota-based Dot's Homestyle Pretzels.   The Hershey Company says that it will spend $1.2 billion for Dot's Pretzels as w...

North Dakota lawmakers are considering a plan to spend $150 million dollars to help build a natural gas pipeline from the Bakken region to the Red River Valley. The money is part of the $1 billion dol...

The Grand Forks School Board will chip in another $500,000 dollars to help bring a Career Impact Academy to town. Supporters are trying to raise $10 million dollars to match a state grant for building...

America's employers stepped up their hiring in October, adding a solid 531,000 jobs, the most since July and a sign that the recovery from the pandemic recession may be overcoming a virus-induced slow...

After a 16 month long search Fufeng Group Ltd. has selected Grand Forks for its first U.S.-based manufacturing facility. The company is a global leader in bio-fermentation; manufacturing products that...

Supporters of a Career Impact Academy for Grand Forks say they have secured nearly $6.7 million dollars towards a $10 million dollar goal. A total of 34 organizations have made formal or verbal fundin...

The attorneys general of 26 states have filed a lawsuit challenging a vaccine mandate for employers issued by President Joe Biden's administration. The suit filed in the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circu...

Bills to prevent vaccine mandates and the teaching of certain concepts of race and racism will get hearings - and almost certain approval - when the Republican-controlled Legislature returns to the Ca...

North Dakota's drought is easing with recent precipitation, but some areas of the state are still dealing with poor conditions. This week's U.S. Drought Monitor map shows that no areas of the state ar...