The city is required to publish Grand Forks City Council meeting minutes and bill listings via public notice in its official newspaper, but has not done so for almost a year.
An effort to introduce students in western North Dakota schools to newspapers and boost literacy is completing its second full academic year of operation, with more than 500,000 total copies
It is the hope of university reorganizers that the J-program “will increase the supply of local journalists to populate the state’s local news outlets.”