Kevin Bonham
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Kevin Bonham covers news from northeast North Dakota and northwest Minnesota for the Grand Forks Herald. A North Dakota native, who grew up in Mandan and Dickinson, he has been a reporter or an editor with the Herald and Forum Communications for nearly 30 years.
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The expanding Grand Forks-Traill Water District will receive a $500,000 USDA Rural Development loan guarantee to build a new 500,000-gallon concrete water reservoir.
Formal charges were filed this week against a Devils Lake woman who allegedly used her two-year-old child as a shield to avoid arrest during a domestic disturbance investigation. Rebecca May...
An entrepreneur internship is being established at UND to assist fledgling business ventures. The UND Entrepreneur Professional Practice Program is being funded by a $50,000 gift from Alerus Financial to...
A former Devils Lake restaurant manager is facing felony charges in connection with the theft of more than $20,000 from the business. Amber Aldinger-Cross, 31, has been formally charged with...
A $200 million, 20,000-barrel-a-day clean fuels oil refinery could be operating near Devils Lake within three years. The refinery, similar to one being built in Dickinson, would employ about 100 people and could create as many as 400 spin-off jobs in the area, according to Rachel Lindstrom, executive director of Forward Devils Lake, the region’s economic development agency.
Thief River Falls, Minn., is hoping to cash in on a special state grant that would kick-start construction of a 100-unit housing complex. The project is the first of a...
Did Griggs County voters make the right decision last year when they recalled all five county commissioners over a controversial courthouse construction project? They’ll start to answer that question Nov...
A building renaissance is taking place at Cavalier Air Force Station, home to the Perimeter Acquisition Radar Characterization System (commonly called the PAR site), which provides missile warning and space surveillance data to the U.S. military.
The former ADM Corn Ethanol Plant, which laid off about 60 people — more than 5 percent of the Walhalla workforce — when it closed in 2012, is slowly coming back to life. Walhalla Enterprises recently bought the facility and carved it into sections that have been purchased by other local entrepreneurs, according to Tim Hartje, the former ethanol plant manager and one of the partners. “I worked here for 14 years,” he said. “Our main goal was to sell what we could to local businesses. We have the infrastructure here. Let’s use it.” As part of the purchase agreement, the plant no longer could be used to produce ethanol, according to Hartje, who also is the head football coach for the North Border High School Eagles.
The city of Karlstad, Minn., is helping a Roseau, Minn., manufacturer deal with an acute housing shortage that has been restraining economic expansion. Polaris Industries, maker of ATVs, snowmobiles and...