Jamestown Sun

BISMARCK -- Leaders of groups representing North Dakota teachers, administrators and school boards implored state lawmakers Tuesday to reject a bill that would allow concealed weapons in schools, while voicing support for legislation to provide state funding for school resource officers. "Frankly,...

Car enthusiasts and even those not so hip on classic cars will want to see the 1936 Auburn and the 789 Corvette Chassis at the Winter Wheels Car Show 2015, according to Jamestown Classic Car Club President Jack Meikle. The show, which has been an annual event for more than 10 years,...

Public meetings Stutsman County Water Resource, 10 a.m., Whitney Room, Stutsman County Courthouse, 511 2nd Ave. SE. Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corp. Executive Committee, 9 a.m., Center for Economic Development, 120 2nd St. SE.

FARGO — Getting rid of North Dakota’s sales tax on clothing would level the playing field between the state’s brick-and-mortar stores and online retailers, and clothing stores in bordering states, local retailers say. Chris Heaton, senior vice president for property management...

WILLISTON -- Temperatures that reached into the 50s here Tuesday hampered cleanup efforts at the site of a massive pipeline leak, making the contamination spread more quickly into the state's waterways, officials said. Melting snow and increased flows made it difficult for cleanup...

With pipeline projects come jobs. It’s just plain logic that many people — maybe thousands of people — will be needed to build them. Yet we constantly hear that pipelines won’t be as economically lucrative as some believe, because many of the associated jobs will be “temporary.” We...

The North Dakota Legislature seems intent on giving tax breaks. The question is who will benefit? Lloyd Omdahl has it exactly right in his opinion column that was published Monday in The Sun. Republicans prefer income tax breaks that give tax relief directly proportional to the wealth...

North Dakota passed fair pay legislation 50 years ago. It hasn’t been touched since. It is long past due to update and improve it. When the bill was enacted in 1965, the pay gap was less than 60 cents to every dollar earned by a man. In North Dakota, we’ve only risen a little...

  SALMON, Idaho - The U.S. Forest Service adopted a rule on Wednesday that requires managers of the nation's nearly 200 forests and grasslands to formally designate where snowmobiles can be operated on the 193 million acres of public land the agency oversees. The...

   A former scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexicowas sentenced to five years in prison on Wednesday for passing secret U.S. nuclear weapons data to a person he believed to be a Venezuelan government official, the FBI said. Pedro...