Category Archives: Business News
What's different about 2022 ND marijuana vote? Money
The group working to legalize recreational marijuana in North Dakota has more than a half-million dollars to press its case. Meanwhile, an oil industry group that helped fund opposition four years ago...
Aug 23, 2022
GF continues to advance planning for Fufeng
The Grand Forks council gave an initial thumbs up last night (Monday) to a resolution designed to help finance a series of needed infrastructure improvements for the proposed Fufeng project. The money...
Aug 23, 2022
GF Schools: New buildings and grounds director
The Grand Forks School District has a new Director of Buildings and Grounds. The school board last night (Monday) agreed to hire Darin Johnson to replace Chris Arnold who left for a job with Altru Hea...
Aug 23, 2022
Commercial traffic grounded at GFK
A runway construction project will prevent Delta and Allegiant from landing at the Grand Forks Airport until next month. The GFK closed the airport to commercial traffic following the departure of the...
Aug 22, 2022
Business News: ND unemployment..Birds in GF & recalls
The housing market's comedown from its high-flying days early this year is deepening, with home sales in July falling for the sixth straight month. Sharply higher mortgage rates, surging inflation and...
Aug 21, 2022
Legislation targets Chinese land purchases
A U.S. Senator from South Dakota has introduced legislation that would ban China from buying American farmland and agricultural businesses. Senator mike Rounds says the goal is to "blacklist" China......
Aug 18, 2022
Digi-Key cuts ribbon on huge TRF warehouse
With plenty of fanfare business leaders and political leaders held a ribbon cutting ceremony at Digi-Key Wednesday for new 2.2 million square foot Product Distribution Center. Minnesota DEED Commissio...
Aug 18, 2022
ND gas pipeline project draws little interest
The director of North Dakota's Pipeline Authority says Monday was the deadline for companies to apply to build a natural gas pipeline from the Bakken to eastern North Dakota. No company applied. The s...
Aug 17, 2022
Xcel crews stay busy in GF
It was a busy morning for Xcel Energy teams in Grand Forks. Line crews responded to a series electrical outages impacting southern portions of the city. At one point the Xcel outage page said over 280...
Aug 16, 2022
Altru Health Foundation receives $1 million dollars
It's billed as one of the largest gifts in the history of Altru. The Altru Health Foundation has announced a $1 million dollar commitment from Alerus - the first to be directed towards the new hospita...
Aug 16, 2022