Jamestown Sun

WILLISTON, N.D. — Two separate crashes killed four people in North Dakota’s Oil Patch on Wednesday. The first crash happened around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday on U.S. Highway 2 near Williston. The North Dakota Highway Patrol said a Ford Expedition was traveling west when the driver,...

A Jamestown man accused of a string of thefts committed while working for a plumbing and heating company was sentenced Thursday to one year and one day in prison. Chad Lee Gourneau, 39, 714 9th Ave. SE, was accused of taking property from five separate homes in Jamestown. He pleaded...

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration weighed national standards to control explosive gas in oil trains last year but rejected the move, deciding instead to leave new rules to North Dakota, where much of the fuel originates. Current and former administration officials told Reuters...

Clearly, the founders intended for rural states to exercise unusual influence in Washington. And the Farm Bill, Rural Electrification Act, Tennessee Valley Authority and countless other rural-state supports are among the results. For another thing, federal and state governments...

Just a quick letter regarding Wednesday’s article on nursing homes in the Jamestown area. Almost three years ago, I spent a little more than two months at Eventide Jamestown recovering from brain surgery to remove an infection in my brain. After staying in the hospital for one month...

Human trafficking is a serious problem that the North Dakota Legislature must immediately address with stronger laws and programs that help victims. Abortion advocates, however, want to use the issue to make unprecedented inroads when it comes to using taxpayer money. Except for...

Special events Jamestown Choralaires 60th Anniversary Concert, 7:30 p.m., Jamestown High School Auditorium. The concert features the Jamestown Boys’ Choir and Jamestown High School Men’s Ensemble. Tickets: $10 for adults and $4 for students.

BISMARCK -- North Dakota's House Agriculture Committee heard more than eight hours of testimony Thursday on a bill that would relax the state's anti-corporate farming law to allow corporations to own swine and dairy operations. Some think the bill opens the door to corporate...

U.S. spy agencies are examining intelligence reports that one of five Taliban leaders released from Guantanamo prison and sent to Qatar as part of a deal to free U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl last year may have re-established contact with...

SEATTLE - An American missionary who was kidnapped in central Nigeria in February was safely released to authorities and church leaders on Friday, her Free Methodist Church said in a statement. Reverend Phyllis Sortor, 71, a Free Methodist missionary...

LOS ANGELES - A mountain lion that wandered into a Southern California shopping mall parking lot on Friday was shot with a tranquilizer dart but died as state wildlife officers sought to transport it to the wilderness, authorities said. The incident marked the latest...

UNITED NATIONS (- U.N. sanctions monitors said on Friday they are concerned that if a United Nations Security Council committee approves a request by Libya's government for weapons, tanks and jets, some of the equipment could be diverted to militias supporting...