Category Archives: Business News

What took months to build took only days to demo. Work crews have been able to raze old Memorial Stadium. The 1927 structure has been removed in favor of a new $25 million dollar Memorial Village Deve...

The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell sharply last week to 684,000, the fewest since the pandemic erupted a year ago. Today's report from the Labor Department shows that jobless clai...

The Grand Forks School District will receive $18,495,697 dollars as part of the latest round of federal COVID relief funds. The money is called "ESSER," which stands for "Elementary and Secondary Scho...

It will cost students a little more to live on campus at the University of North Dakota starting in the fall. The North Dakota Board of Higher Education (Thursday) approved room and board rates for th...

A Senate committee has put a speed bump in the way of a bill designed to raise North Dakota's gas tax by three cents per gallon. The Finance and Taxation committee voted four to three in favor of a DO...

Grand Forks motorists will have no shortage of road construction to navigate this summer. The city council gave preliminary approval to various bids and contracts for three large projects last night (...

Homelessness in America was on the rise even before the COVID-19 pandemic dragged down the economy. That's according to a new report from the Housing and Urban Development Department. It provides a sn...

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose last week to 770,000, a sign that layoffs remain high even as much of the U.S. economy is steadily recovering from the coronavirus recession....

Circle of Friends Animal Shelter is expanding its East Grand Forks (MN) footprint by moving into the former Mama Maria's restaurant. Circle of Friends CEO Lauralee Tupa says the move within the Riverw...

Drought conditions are getting worse in western North Dakota. The Bismarck Tribune reports that the latest U.S. Drought Monitor Map released Thursday shows much of northwestern North Dakota, or about ...