Category Archives: Business News

Power outage impacts south GF
A power outage left around 2,400 Xcel Energy customers in south Grand Forks in the dark early this morning. According to the Xcel outage page the lights went off around 12:35 a.m. Power was restored t...
Doug Barrett Sep 05, 2023

Business News: Home sales...GF S&P's...and time-off
The nation's employers added a healthy 187,000 jobs in August in a sign of a still-resilient labor market despite the high interest rates the Federal Reserve has imposed. The unemployment rate rose fr...
Doug Barrett Sep 05, 2023

MDH investigates outbreak tied to raw milk
(MDH release:) State health officials have linked eight cases of cryptosporidiosis and one case of E. coli O111:H8 illness to raw milk from a farm in Hillman, Minnesota. The Minnesota Department of He...
Pat Sweeney Sep 01, 2023
DL health care needs a boost
The future of health care in Devils Lake received a checkup during a meeting with U.S. Senator John Hoeven this week. Hoeven says the way to improve health care access and attract more staff is for pr...
Doug Barrett Sep 01, 2023

UND to focus on golf course redesign
The preferred design for the 42nd Street grade separation project in Grand Forks would necessitate major changes to the Ray Richards Golf Course. The city would need to acquire acreage for a "jug hand...
Doug Barrett Sep 01, 2023

GF Children's Museum looking for dollars
Supporters of a Grand Forks Children's Museum continue to chip away at fundraising for the facility. The group is currently working to secure a $5 million dollar grant from the North Dakota Tourism De...
Doug Barrett Sep 01, 2023

MN State Fair attendance passes 1 million
Attendance at this year's Minnesota State Fair has passed the one-million mark. Thanks to Wednesday's attendance of 128,068, the first seven days of the Fair have attracted 1,054,808 people. That's an...
Pat Sweeney Aug 31, 2023

GF eyes major road project in 2024
The 2023 road construction season is not yet over but Grand Forks officials are already turning their attention to major 2024 projects. The city council gave preliminary approval this week to a cost p...
Doug Barrett Aug 31, 2023

Officials tout $500M Sky Range complex at Grand Sky
North Dakota Senators John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer joined Test Resource Management Center Director George Rumford in Grand Forks today (Wed), highlighting plans for a $500-million dollar "Sky Range" c...
Pat Sweeney Aug 30, 2023

Altru fills CFO position with familiar name
You can drop interim from the title of Derek Goebel after Altru Health announced that he is the organization's new chief financial officer. He has been serving in the CFO role since January. Goebel ha...
Doug Barrett Aug 30, 2023