His path eventually led authorities back to a quiet backyard in this oil boom town. What they uncovered was a large-scale methamphetamine ring that had found a home in a state long known...
While it’s an issue that’s been around the United States for a while, it’s become an “infestation” in the Bakken region after the oil boom, she told CNBC on Thursday. “The...
The Bakken region may be over 200 miles from Fargo, but that doesn’t mean North Dakota State is free from its effects. A state budget shortfall of over $1 billion due to slumping oil prices and agriculture commodities is cutting all state agencies’ budgets by 4.05 percent, as ordered by Gov. Jack Dalrymple. NDSU must cut over $6.4 million from its budget for the 2015-17 biennium. Provost Beth Ingram said in a Feb. 1 email to campus that the university will delay and reevaluate funding to sev...
Nearly 3 million gallons of saltwater generated by oil drilling have leaked from a North Dakota pipeline, an official said Wednesday, the largest such spill since the state's current oil boom began...
If you've seen any coverage of North Dakota's oil boom, you've seen the images — oil rigs, truck traffic, "man camps," miles of temporary housing. But there is something about this place...
Today, because of oil prices and drilling advancements, Williston is home to America's biggest oil boom and its residents number over 30,000. Home prices are soaring, unemployment is close...
a new survey of the Williston Basin, which contains the Bakken shale formation, and the lesser known, but actually larger, Three Forks formation, has doubled the estimated oil reserves in the
[colored_box color=green] · Located 180 miles northwest of Bismark, North Dakota, the White Earth Valley lies two miles above a shale rock formation full of oil which can now be extracted because of new technology, leaving oil pads like this scattered across the prairie landscape. Photo: © Terry Evans · [/colored_box] · The North Dakota Museum of Art is touring Fractured: North Dakota’s Oil Boom throughout the State as part of its Rural Arts Initiative program. Fractured opened at NDMO...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Smithsonian Channel is set to air a docu-series about the oil boom that has drawn thousands of workers to the Bakken shale region of North Dakota and Montana.
WASHINGTON (AP) — America's cities are still growing, with the population boom fueled by people picking up and moving to find jobs in energy production across the oil- and gas-rich areas west of th...