The Golden Valley-based restaurant chain is building a new restaurant in Williston, N.D. The Business Journal reports the new Buffalo Wild Wings location is scheduled to open in February.

The 1,300-mile project would cost more than $1.5 billion and could ship 200,000 barrels of crude daily from western North Dakota to the nation's biggest storage terminal. Construction on the pipeline could begin as early as next year and be complete by 2015.

Charges were filed Monday against Lamonte Martin and 10 others, mostly gang members or prison inmates, who made up a witness intimidation network that lasted three years – one of the most extensive networks that investigators have ever seen, the Star Tribune reports.

North Dakota's oil boom is fueling demand for more air travel. Delta Air Lines is adding two nonstop daily flights between the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and Williston, N.D., starting in November, the Fargo Forum reports.

Japanese beetles in North Dakota for only the second time in more than half a century, and an expert thinks the destructive bugs got there by hitching rides on trucks carrying nursery plants across the Minnesota border.

An annual convention, which runs during the next five weeks, brings thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses back to Rochester each year. The event gives the city an estimated $7 million boost.

Witnesses who saw a small plane crash in northwestern Ontario earlier this week are credited with helping save the lives of three Northland residents aboard the aircraft. Several people living on the lake got into boats, made their way to the crash site and provided first aid to the victims, Canadian media reported.

Members of several congregations in the metro area are protesting a plan to merge some parishes. The Church says it must cut the number of parishes by about 10 percent because of a shortage of priests and changing demographics.