Jamestown Sun

BISMARCK — Legislative leaders remained optimistic about North Dakota’s financial position but predicted some difficult decisions ahead in light of a revised forecast Thursday that shows oil and gas tax revenues dropping more than $4 billion over the next two years because of...

WAHPETON, N.D. — A North Dakota State College of Science student whose body was found in the Red River last June quit working as a confidential informant for an anti-drug task force shortly before he disappeared, according to a report issued by the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal...

Legislation calling for yet another expensive study of the Fargo-Moorhead diversion — and whether a diversion is needed — should be defeated. It would be a waste of money. It would be a faux feel-good exercise that would unearth no new information. It would be the worst sort of...

I remember being over at Chase Lake by Medina some years ago, seeing the monument where the dignitaries did the dedication of the Chase Lake Game Management Project. Some of the words I recall on there were, profitable agriculture and sustainable wildlife not one without the other....

Starting Monday the lower level of the Stutsman County Law Enforcement Center will be closed to the public after regular business hours, one of a few changes being made in how the center is operated. Stutsman County Emergency Manager Jerry Bergquist said the Jamestown Police Department...

BISMARCK — A representative of the North Dakota Student Association spoke against a bill that would tweak the state’s voter identification law Thursday. Kelsey Klein, governmental relations director for the group, told the House Government and Veterans Affairs Committee that...

BISMARCK — A $1.1 billion spending bill designed to give oil-impacted cities and counties in western North Dakota a jumpstart on the 2015 construction season was fast-tracked through the Senate on Thursday and is now headed to the House. Senate Majority Leader Rich Wardner, R-Dickinson,...

BISMARCK — North Dakota lawmakers are joining the ranks of other legislators across the country looking to outlaw a product that hasn’t even been released yet — powdered alcohol. The website for the product, called Palcohol, says it won’t be released until this spring. That...

WASHINGTON - A U.S. federal judge has agreed to allow six officers of MI5, Britain's domestic counterintelligence agency, to testify in disguise and use pseudonyms at the Brooklyn trial of an alleged al Qaeda militant. In a court order issued earlier this week, Judge Raymond...

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - AT&T Inc spent close to half the total in the record-setting U.S. sale of airwaves for mobile data, with Verizon Communications Inc. and bidding partners of Dish Network Corp. also spending heavily, results showed on Friday. AT&T...

WASHINGTON - With U.S. measles cases on the rise, the White House on Friday urged parents to heed the advice of public health officials and scientists in getting their children vaccinated. "People should evaluate this for themselves with a bias toward good...

NEW YORK - Oil prices roared back from six-year lows on Friday, rocketing more than 8 percent as a record weekly decline in U.S. oil drilling fueled a frenzy of short-covering. In a rally that may spur speculation that a seven-month price collapse has ended, global benchmark...