WILLISTON, N.D. — Two people are dead after a head-on collision involving a pickup truck and a water tanker truck in Williams County. The Highway Patrol says the two male victims were in the pickup, which was traveling east in the westbound lane of state Highway 1804. The crash happened shortly before 1:30 a.m. Thursday, about 20 miles east of ...

WILLISTON, N.D. — Authorities say four people fired pistols into the air and at a Williston highway in the middle of the city’s Fourth of July fireworks display. The four have been charged with reckless endangerment and discharging a firearm within city limits. Court records say they were caught on video firing two pistols near a Williston hotel shortly after ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — The North Dakota Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of an Idaho man convicted of killing a man outside of a strip club in the western North Dakota oil patch hub of Williston. Jonathan Horvath is serving life in prison without parole for the March 2013 shooting death of 28-year-old Derrick Spiegel of Williston. Horvath had moved ...

Back in 2009 Rush Limbaugh stirred controversy, as he usually does, by telling his radio audience that he hoped President Barack Obama would fail. Now, in Limbaugh’s defense, he was talking about his desire to avoid the sort of policy reforms Obama was intent on implementing. I don’t think Limbaugh was saying he wanted people to be hurt or to ...

St. Cloud Apollo graduate Dan Thomsen and his family still live in Mandan, North Dakota, albeit in a bigger and better house. Technical High School graduate Kate Chopp continues to chase adventure in Williston, where she still works for Champ’s Place — although now in more of a managerial role. She books music acts and handles advertising and marketing for ...

Just like three years ago, Deb Lesmeister and the small crew that works for her siding business still loads up the super duty Chevy pickup, hitches it to an enclosed trailer with dual axles and drives off from Central Minnesota to find work. Only now she’s pointing the wheels toward towns like Staples or Morris instead of Williston and other ...

WILLISTON, N.D. — A downturn in the oil industry isn’t having much of an effect on construction in the North Dakota oil patch hub of Williston. The Williston Herald reports that the value of private enterprise building permits issued through March is $26.5 million. And there are numerous publicly funded projects under way or in the works. They include a ...

WATFORD CITY, N.D. — Longtime anti-human trafficking advocate Cindy McCain and U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp are touring western North Dakota to look at the state’s human trafficking challenges. Cindy McCain is the co-founder of the McCain Institute and wife of 2008 Republican presidential nominee U.S. Sen. John McCain. She will join Heitkamp in Watford City on Sunday to hear firsthand ...

WILLISTON, N.D. — A Williston man is accused of using houses in remote areas including a ghost town to hide items he stole for future use in an oil field crew camp. Thirty-six-year-old Toby McLaughlin faces four felony theft counts that could land him in prison for up to 20 years if he’s convicted. Court documents do not list an ...

WILLISTON, N.D. — Finding a job in the Williston area can be easy, but finding quality childcare when it’s time to go to work is proving to be a challenge for many parents. Many licensed childcare centers are full, and expensive. Working mothers, in particular, often find that they are barely earning enough to cover the cost of childcare. Staffing ...