Jamestown Sun

FARGO -- Legislators in North Dakota are again pushing for a bill that would offer basic nondiscrimination rights for those who identify as LGBTQ. North Dakota is one of the worst states in the country for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) residents based...

LARIMORE, N.D. — The state law capping the amount in damages that a public entity like a school district can divvy out has not been updated since 1971, a dilemma that came to the attention of area lawmakers in the wake of the train-school bus collision that killed two people and...

A swath of the East Coast from Philadelphia to New York City to Maine was bracing for a potentially historic blizzard on Monday that is expected to dump as much as 3 feet of snow and snarl transportation for tens of millions of people. The National Weather Service on Sunday issued...

A 33-year-old Casselton, N.D., man died Saturday when he was ejected from a pickup that rolled about 7 miles east of Dazey, N.D., according to the North Dakota Highway Patrol. The crash occurred about 8:45 p.m. on Highway 26. The patrol said a 30-year-old Dazey man was driving a...

The City Engineer’s Office announced that storm drain  cleaning work begins today and will continue through Friday. The work started at 4th Avenue Southeast between the viaduct and 2nd Street Southeast and on 2nd Street Southeast from 4th Avenue to 7th Avenue Southeast. Traffic...

North Dakota legislators will be sorting through a tangle of bills aimed at various forms of tax relief or other means of enabling residents to share in the state’s bursting coffers. The debate will be complicated by the plunge in oil prices and will be influenced by the best available...

Let them eat cake. As expected, the first issue to be considered by the North Dakota Legislature was taxes. The Republicans want to cut income taxes while the Democrats want to reduce property taxes. Both parties are wrong. Cutting the income tax helps only those with incomes; cutting...

Carrington Cardinals girls basketball improves to 13-0 on season

Another come-from-behind rally in the third period resulted in a second win over Williston for the Blue Jay boys hockey team on Saturday. Jamestown's Austin Rene and Nick Urquart banged home power-play goals, and Kelton Beedy added an unassisted score -- all in the final 17 minutes...

West Fargo picked up two firsts in the Class A division of the North Dakota Association of Dance and Drill competition at the Jamestown Civic Center Friday and Saturday. The winners were: Jazz, Class A: West Fargo, first; Sheyenne, second, and Valley City, third. Jazz, Class B:...

Two births were reported Sunday by Jamestown Regional Medical Center. Jan. 23, son, 7 pounds, 14 ounces, to Ashley Goter and Sam Gray, Jamestown. Jan. 25, daughter, 6 pounds, 4 ounces, to Mariah Reynolds and Branden Barclay, Binford, N.D.

Monday, Jan. 26 Public meetings Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corp. Executive Committee, 11:45 a.m., lower level conference room, Center for Economic Development, 120 2nd St. SE.

FARGO -- North Dakota lawmakers representing districts south and west of the city are pushing a bill to study the impact of the Fargo-Moorhead flood diversion and whether a diversion is even needed. Millions in tax dollars have been spent on studies and several more are in progress,...