Category Archives: Business News

The number of Americans applying for unemployment aid rose last week for a second straight week to 351,000, an increase of 16,000 from the previous week. It's a sign that the delta variant of the coro...

A recent concert by country singer Luke Combs has broken the record for ticket sales at the Alerus Center.   The Sept. 17 event sold 21,752 tickets, breaking the previous mark of 19,500 at a Geor...

The company responsible for the largest oil field spill in North Dakota has pleaded guilty to criminal charges after reaching an agreement with the federal government to pay $15 million in fines. Summ...

Xcel Energy has filed for an increase on the base rate charged to natural gas customers in North Dakota. It would be raised from the current $18.48 a month to $24.48. Xcel doesn't make any profit on t...

The National Park Service has awarded seven grants totaling $1.35 million dollars to state and local recreational projects in North Dakota. The Grand Forks Park District will receive $215,595 to help ...

Minnesota-based Target will hire fewer seasonal workers this year as it navigates a tight labor market and will instead offer more hours to current employees. The company says about 100,000 seasonal w...

A record $5.2 billion dollars in bonding requests currently on the table for the 2022 Minnesota Legislature. The "ask" by state agencies and local governments brought the House Capital Investment Comm...

North Dakota's Senate Majority Leader says lawmakers will be back November 8th, to deal primarily with two big subjects: one is redistricting, the other is spending the $1 billion from the American Re...

The head of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is asking a federal agency overseeing the environmental review of the Dakota Access oil pipeline to cut ties with a contractor conducting the analysis, citing...

Without discussion the East Grand Forks council approved an agreement last night (Tuesday) with Youth Sports Plus to stream hockey games from the city's three ice arenas. The games would be broadcast ...