Black Friday

Black Friday has become its own holiday around the country, and Bismarck-Mandan is no exception. To make it easy on you, we called around to a number of local businesses in the area to get the lowdown on their holiday hours for 2015.

Here it is, Black Friday 2014. Not only did stores and malls opened after Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, some stores had the traditional opening at 5 AM on Black Friday as the lines were long enough to wrap around the building.

If you take a quick look at the calendar, you'll notice that Thanksgiving is still over two weeks away, yet that hasn't stopped two California women from lining up for Best Buy's Thanksgiving Day sale.

Stores opening their doors on Thanksgiving Day to usher in the holiday shopping season is almost as much a part of turkey day as football and a tryptophan-induced nap, but that may change.

Black Friday has come and gone but some of the huge discounts continue throughout the weekend. Parking was at a premium.

It started before daylight with temperatures in the teens across Bismarck-Mandan, here it is Black Friday as merchants offered deals up to 50% off regular retail prices.

Big sales tonight, Big sales on Friday, even bigger sales on Saturday and the weekend. But how do the retailers plan to do it?

Black Friday is still over a week away, yet that hasn't deterred some people from securing their place in line already.

It's not just the big-box stores like Walmart and Target who get mobbed by 'Black Friday' shoppers. Here you can watch as hundreds of women prepare to trample each other for fancy underwear at their local Victoria's Secret.

It's Black Friday, and you know what that means -- hiding in your home away from the world while people desperately claw at each other's faces to buy a Wii U for their kid. The madness is not for everybody. Some of us like to eat cold turkey all day and wonder how a person could be so hungover. For those of us who would rather spend time with our TVs watching 'Star Wars' than rioting over discount