Category Archives: Business News

ND airport boards continue to climb
North Dakota's commercial service airports finished calendar year 2022 with a statewide total of 1,028,159 airline passenger boardings. This is a growth of 141,350 passengers - or a 16% overall increa...
Doug Barrett Jan 20, 2023

Railroad's plan to test idea to cut train crews is put on hold
Union Pacific's latest attempt to move toward cutting its train crews down to one person remains on hold. That's because of the longstanding safety concerns of the union that represents conductors. Th...
Pat Sweeney Jan 19, 2023

ND bill would shovel money to local governments
The Legislature is considering financial help for local governments to help cover snow removal expenses - because of the early heavy snowfall. ( Republican State Senator Terry Wanzek says local jurisd...
Doug Barrett Jan 16, 2023

GF Business News: Beer...eggs...and tattoos
Rising U.S. consumer prices moderated again last month, bolstering hopes that inflation's grip on the economy will continue to ease this year and possibly require less drastic action by the Federal Re...
Doug Barrett Jan 15, 2023

GF pushes for new I-29 Interchange
A public input meeting last night (Thursday) gave Grand Forks residents a first glimpse at what a proposed new I-29 interchange might look like between 32nd Avenue south and 62nd Avenue South. Accordi...
Doug Barrett Jan 13, 2023

UND students concerned about tuition hikes
UND's student body president made a plea to members of the House Appropriations Committee's Education and Environment section to try to keep tuition rates down. Faith Wahl of Bismarck testified during...
Doug Barrett Jan 13, 2023

GF Aquatics and turf project update
It's a big project that will require some big dollars to move it from the concept phase to construction. A joint meeting last night (Wednesday) between Grand Forks park... city...and consultants to ta...
Doug Barrett Jan 12, 2023

MN Senator Klobuchar stops in EGF / Bernie's
U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar stopped by Bernie's in East Grand Forks to talk about workforce shortages...child care...and housing with Mayor Steve Gander and owner Molly Yeh. Klobuchar told those in att...
Doug Barrett Jan 11, 2023

ND & MN gas pipeline update
There could be a glitch in efforts to build a natural gas pipeline from western Minnesota to East Grand Forks (MN). North Dakota Pipeline Authority Director Justin Kringstad says they just recently le...
Doug Barrett Jan 11, 2023

EGF still looking at sales tax plan
East Grand Forks residents could learn as soon as next week what type of sales tax ask could be on a future ballot for park and rec facility needs. The city council discussed both a one-percent and th...
Doug Barrett Jan 11, 2023