Williston News

Officials met last night in Williston and decided the Capital Lodge and Wanzek camp, both near Tioga, will need to provide proof of increased security, undergo inspections, and re-apply for permits to operate in 6 months.

The North Dakota Legislature approved funding for two new judgeships for the six-county Northwest Judicial District.

Monday's tornado killed at least 24 people, destroyed countless homes and an elementary school, killing seven children inside.

A stabbing in Williston puts a man in the hospital. The Williams County Sheriff`s Department says a 30 year old man was stabbed over the weekend at the Capital Lodge man camp near Tioga.

Bond has been set at one million dollars for Ryan Stensaker, the man accused of murdering Jack Sjol of Williston.

Thirty-three-year-old Ryan Stensaker, of Williston, is accused in the shooting death of 58-year-old Jack Sjol , who had been missing three weeks before his body was discovered Tuesday in a private dump ground near from his ranch.

After nearly a year overseas, the 818th En-Co Sappers are back home in Williston.

Landfills in Watford City and Williston have discovered attempts to illegally dump that oil field waste.

The company awards were presented at the 2013 Value Place Annual Conference in Chicago.

The Williams County Sheriff's Office says sheriff's deputies and officers with the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation were executing a search warrant Tuesday morning at a location about 7 miles east of Williston when they found the body of 58-year-old Jack Sjol.

Police have issued a missing person`s report for Chris Carrol Collins, 56, of Williston.

The body of the man found Tuesday near Williston has been identified, and another man is in custody for his murder.

The Williams County Sheriff's Office says sheriff's deputies and officers with the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation were executing a search warrant Tuesday morning at a location about 7 miles east of Williston when they found a man's dead body.

Pet owners were up in arms this week after a hair-raising flier started making the rounds on social media sites.

In this Tuesday, July 26, 2011 file photo, Ben Shaw hangs from an oil derrick outside of Williston, N.D. The surge in oil production in the U.S. and Canada and shrinking oil consumption in the developed world is transforming the global oil market.

House Bill 1358 was designed to give money back to cities impacted by the oil boom.

Authorities have found a body seven miles east of Williston this morning. The Williams County Sheriff`s Department says they found the man`s body while executing a search warrant there.

Residents in two bedroom units at Century Apartments claim their rent has gone from $850 to nearly $2,000 in the last two years.

For now, excess natural gas is burned off at most oil wells in North Dakota. But if pipelines can be built, the gas can be contained and used.

Illusionist Kevin Spencer believes that magic can be therapeutic, especially with sick children, because tricks give them something in their lives they can control.