Jamestown Sun

CANNON BALL, N.D. – North Dakota’s chief archaeologist has found that no burial sites or significant sites were destroyed by Dakota Access Pipeline construction, according to a memo authored by the State Historical Society. In a Sept. 22 memo from state archaeologist Paul Picha,...

  It seems like there is always some special observance around the corner. There is even a World Day for Farmed Animals. It’s observed fittingly on Oct. 2 (Gandhi’s birthday). It’s intended to memorialize the tens of billions of animals abused and killed for food around the...

Our country is under attack. We are under attack by Jihadist Muslims that our government has invited into the country to come and slaughter us. Sound harsh? It's the truth. It started with George W. Bush, who didn't have the will or the brains to restrict or scrutinize Muslims entering...

Like most North Dakotans, when I walk into my local bank, I know and trust the folks behind the counter. They're my friends and neighbors, and they're incredibly dedicated to their work and to our community. That's why when I learned that at least 5,300 Wells Fargo employees had been...

BISMARCK — A proposal to give juveniles in North Dakota's tribal courts access to the same services available to those in the state court system could improve strained relations between the tribes and state government, a tribal official said Monday before a committee voted to advance...

The Dakota Access oil pipeline protest by American Indians and others at an encampment near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota is protected — enshrined, really — in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But rallies Tuesday at public buildings in Mandan...

The North Dakota State Hospital faces challenges in maintaining its facility and in finding and retaining staff, officials said Monday. "We're trying to put out infernos, then we get to the fires," said Todd Wilen, plant manager of the State Hospital, during the hospital's Governing...

Tuesday, Sept. 27 Jamestown Solid Waste (Recycling) and Budget, 3 p.m., City Hall, 102 3rd Ave. SE. Friendship Suppers, 4:30 to 6 p.m., Seventh-day Adventist Church, 1201 4th St. NE. Menu: Baked potato bar, apple crisp. If a ride is needed, call Deb at (701) 269-9852.

The family of a black Maryland man who called 911 and died last week after a scuffle with police is awaiting results of an autopsy and other data before it files a wrongful death lawsuit against the county, the family's lawyer said on Tuesday. Tawon Boyd, 21, of Middle River, died...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it was providing nearly $400 million in additional humanitarian funding to help Syrians caught up in the country's civil war, bring total U.S. humanitarian spending for Syria to about $5.9 billion. Assistant Secretary of State...

Goldman Sachs on Tuesday slashed its fourth quarter 2016 oil price forecast by $7 per barrel, citing a mounting crude surplus that could outweigh any short-term price support from a potential deal among top producers to limit output. The Wall Street bank lowered its fourth-quarter...