Category Archives: Business News

ND high court to weigh judge's abortion ban ruling
North Dakota's Supreme Court will hear arguments later this month on the state's abortion ban after the attorney general appealed a judge's ruling that kept it from taking effect. The high court has s...
Pat Sweeney Nov 03, 2022

GF sports & aquatics center planning advances
The Grand Forks Park District is crunching the latest data on a proposed Indoor Sports Complex and Aquatic Center. The consulting firm Berry Dunn/GreenPlay has compiled the public responses from 9 sta...
Doug Barrett Nov 03, 2022

Powerball prize up to $1.5 billion
The bad news is that no one won Wednesday night's huge $1.2 billion Powerball jackpot. The good news is that means the prize has grown even larger to $1.5 billion ahead of the next drawing Saturday ni...
Doug Barrett Nov 03, 2022

Medical marijuana firms lead donors for legal weed
Donors associated with companies holding medical marijuana licenses are providing most of the funding for ballot measures that would legalize recreational marijuana in several states. An analysis of c...
Doug Barrett Nov 03, 2022

Burgum rejects ND tribes' plea for online gambling rights
Gov. Doug Burgum has rejected a plea by North Dakota's American Indian tribes to give them exclusive rights to host internet gambling and sports betting in the state. But Burgum did endorse the tribes...
Doug Barrett Nov 02, 2022

Bird flu infects egg farm with 1 million chickens
Iowa agriculture officials say another commercial egg farm has been infected with bird flu, the first commercial farm case identified since April when a turkey farm was infected. The latest case is in...
Doug Barrett Nov 01, 2022

Delta pilots authorize strike
Pilots at Delta Air Lines are giving their union the authority to call a strike. But that doesn't mean a strike is imminent, or even likely. Federal law makes it hard for airline workers to legally wa...
Doug Barrett Nov 01, 2022

Judge rejects US effort to limit ND suit over DAPL protest damages
A federal judge has denied a motion by the U-S Justice Department, seeking to severely limit North Dakota's $38 million lawsuit against the U-S for recovering damages related to Dakota Access Pipeline...
Pat Sweeney Oct 28, 2022

Explosives raze former coal-fired power plant in MN
A decommissioned coal-fired power plant in western Minnesota has crashed to the ground with a thunderous boom as part of a planned implosion that marks the end of an era in Granite Falls. Xcel Energy ...
Pat Sweeney Oct 28, 2022

GF children's museum lands grant
Supporters of a children's museum in Grand Forks have secured a $100,000 dollar grant from the U.S. Economic Development Association. The award was one of six so-called Placemaking Planning Grants ann...
Doug Barrett Oct 26, 2022