City officials and tribal leaders discuss tax, infrastructure and business concerns as a $300M casino project is proposed in Grand Forks.

After years of talk, a casino and resort could finally be coming to Grand Forks. A Letter of Intent has been approved by Grand Forks Committee of the Whole. It’s just the first step in the process to establish agreements on the development,

Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa owns 146-acres of land just southwest of the current city limits, along I-29. Grand Forks Committee of the Whole will go over the tribe’s plans that are included in a letter of intent. City staff are recommending its approval.

The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians Tribe have submitted their letter of intent to the city of Grand Forks, which includes their proposal for building a hotel and casino along I-29.

The City Council on Monday recommended approving a letter of intent with the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa for a proposed resort, casino and event center. During its Committee of the Whole meeting Monday night,

The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa has purchased land along the southwest edge of Grand Forks with hopes of building a casino, reigniting a conversation that has been happening in Grand Forks for at least 20 years.

President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist convicted of killing two FBI agents nearly 50 years ago in South Dakota. Peltier, 80, is a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota.

Peltier, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, was convicted in 1977 for the murders of two FBI agents during a 1975 shootout at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

GRAND FORKS – The Grand Forks City Council on Monday recommended approving a letter of intent with the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa for a proposed resort, casino and event center.

In one of his last acts before leaving office, former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.

"This last-second, disgraceful act by then-President Biden, which does not change [Leonard] Peltier’s guilt but does release him from prison, is cowardly and lacks accountability,'' the FBI Agents Association seethed in a statement Monday.

Peltier, 80, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, was convicted in 1977 of the agents' murders during a 1975 shootout at the reservation. The activist was convicted of first-degree murder for the deaths of agents Ronald Williams and ...