Andrew Haffner

GRAND FORKS-At about $110 million, the Ralph Engelstad Arena was the single-largest private contribution in UND's history.It stands to reason then that the infrastructure to keep the place open would be built on a similar scale. Tax filings and o...
GRAND FORKS -- The two people involved in a fatal shooting Thursday, May 17, were mother and son, police say.Officers responded about 11:30 a.m. to a home on the 2500 block of Seventh Avenue South after a report of a gun discharge in an apartment...
GRAND FORKS-Kris Engelstad McGarry, daughter of University of North Dakota alumnus and mega-donor Ralph Engelstad, caused a stir Wednesday, May 9, when she told Forum News Service that relations had become strained between her family's foundation...
GRAND FORKS-The Rev. John Golv, of Zion Lutheran Church in Thief River Falls, had a solemn task to carry out.Though funerals come with the job for a minister, Golv had arrived Thursday at Hope Church in Grand Forks to conduct a memorial ceremony ...
GRAND FORKS-The daughter of Ralph Engelstad, a trustee of the Engelstad Family Foundation, said Wednesday, May 9, that her working relationship with UND President Mark Kennedy has deteriorated, possibly resulting in fewer Engelstad Foundation dol...
GRAND FORKS-Authorities confirmed Monday, May 7, that three children found dead last week were killed by their mother, who then committed suicide.Astra Volk, 35, and her children Arianna Talmage, 6, Aidan Talmage, 10, and Tyler Talmage, 14, were ...
GRAND FORKS - The deaths of four people in an apparent murder-suicide Thursday, May 3, has left a community wondering if more could have been done.Longtime social services and domestic violence experts Kate Kenna and Kristi Hall-Jiran weighed in ...
GRAND FORKS-A community is grappling with the specters of mental illness and self-harm in the wake of an apparent murder-suicide that left a Grand Forks mother and three children dead.Residents down the Red River Valley and beyond have taken to s...
GRAND FORKS -- Police have opened a homicide case -- but aren't currently seeking any suspects -- after a Grand Forks woman and her three children were found dead in their home Thursday morning.The bodies of Astra Volk, 35, and her children Arian...
GRAND FORKS-University of North Dakota students have selected their champion.More than 2,300 campus voters cast digital ballots earlier this week to choose the look for their new university mascot, a costumed character based on the Fighting Hawks...