The spirit of his North Dakota grandfather has filtered down to Matt Gaetz, who is now under intense scrutiny as President-elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the Department of Justice.

GRAND FORKS — Hamzat Koriko, a Grand Forks city staffer focused on the community’s new Americans — and a leading member of its immigrant community — was accused of sexual harassment in June 2021, when he was the executive director of the African Arts…

The pandemic is safely behind manufacturers, but the after-effects haven’t faded just yet. That’s especially true for Eureka Manufacturing Co., the swimming pool product and custom manufacturer. Manager Cathryn Binstock said the labor market is as…

Jordan Lutz is a sustainability project manager at Bemidji State University. He’s part of the office that helps the university and its students go green, focusing on everything from recycling to lighting to cutting down on waste in food services. But…

GRAND FORKS – The Grand Forks Children’s Museum took a major leap toward brick-and-mortar reality this spring with the announcement that it won $5 million in funding from the state of North Dakota. Now, leaders of the project are pressing ahead,…

GRAND FORKS – Roger Smith has been a heavy equipment operator with R.J. Zavoral and Sons for so long that he remembers the days, as one of his bosses puts it, of being an “iron man” — riding atop a hulking machine without the modern comforts of a…

GRAND FORKS — Ashley Anderson is the owner of The Silo Boutique, a women’s clothing and accessories storefront in Grand Forks and Warren. She said she did remarkably well during the pandemic, keeping sales high with creative marketing and the magic…

Chris Nyhus grew up in Harvey, North Dakota, a small town in Wells County of about 1,650 people. After years in the Bismarck area — as a prosecutor and in private practice — he found his way back home. Nyhus Law Firm has offices both in Harvey and in…

Justin Schoenberg heads up the commercial team at Sandman Structural Engineers, the Moorhead, Minnesota-based firm that has him juggling designs on everything from big agricultural facilities to schools. It’s been a wild ride for the past few years,…

GRAND FORKS — In the spring of 1997, Herald Publisher Mike Maidenberg found himself where he never imagined he would be: in a small boat motoring into downtown Grand Forks, its engine bumping off the streets submerged under the Flood of 1997,…

Lila Gronseth, 21, keeps a busy schedule at Dakota Wesleyan University — Mitchell, S.D.’s home of the Tigers. She’s in a mentorship program for local youth. She helps lead a bible study. She works at the Dakota Discovery Museum. For the university’s…

Elevate Rapid City’s Tom Johnson has seen the future — and in his office, it looks like a four-and-a-half-day work week. Elevate is the local chamber and the economic development group for South Dakota’s Black Hills region, and Johnson has been chief…

GRAND FORKS – Mandy Iverson, Mental Health Matters’ new community mental health coordinator, has only been on the job for six months. But she already has a favorite moment in her new role. Iverson used to be a school nurse, tending to kids as they…

When Mary and Joe Drumm became teachers, they hardly expected to become millionaires. But as the pair criss-crossed the upper Midwest — from Wisconsin to Williston and now teaching high school in downtown Grand Forks — they didn’t imagine this,…

Going by the data alone, one could argue North Dakota’s airline industry makes a good comeback story. Passenger boardings had crashed during the pandemic — falling in 2020 to less than half their 2019 level and, at their lowest levels, leaving even…

GRAND FORKS — After more than a year of blistering debate, Fufeng Group’s plans for a Grand Forks corn-milling plant are no more — crushed by cresting skepticism of China from local residents, North Dakota’s senators and, finally, the U.S. Air Force.…

GRAND FORKS – In 2015, on a small patch of land near the edge of Grand Forks Air Force Base, Tom Swoyer was ready to break ground on Grand Sky — the business park for unmanned aircraft tech. To a gathered crowd full of local and visiting officials,…

GRAND FORKS — North Dakota’s senior care industry is sailing toward a demographic iceberg, observers warn, with dwindling time to prepare for a growing cohort of aging seniors as baby boomers exit the work force and require more health care. Rising…

GRAND FORKS — Rachael Eider has led RH Standard, the downtown Grand Forks clothing boutique, for about a decade now. And to hear the headlines tell it, there’s always one thing or another threatening small businesses like hers. So why lose sleep over…

When Maribeth Groen talks about kids in need in Kent County, she doesn’t just talk about the poverty level — she talks about something more subtle. Groen is the director of marketing and communications for the Heart of West Michigan United Way. She…