oil

A few weeks back, we had a story about the poorest county in North Dakota. This week we feature a story concerning the richest county in North Dakota.

One of the big names in the Bakken oil industry is set to cut nearly 7,000 jobs by the end of March.

The national spotlight is shining squarely on North Dakota as an article in the Sunday New York Times focuses on the legal fallout from murder charges in the state's oil-rich Fort Berthold Reservation.

A new liquid natural gas (LNG) plant, the first in North Dakota, has opened in Tioga on the Bakken.

Over Memorial Day weekend, a tornado swept through McKenzie County for only the fourteenth time in over six decades. While no one was killed, nine people were injured and 15 trailers were destroyed in a temporary camp set up by workers in the state's largest oil-producing county. Fortunately, thanks to new ordinances pushed through by local officials, the location of the "man camp" was k

On June 25th, the North Dakota Petroleum Council and its member companies will host an event in Tioga to celebrate the state's oil production reaching an average of 1 million barrels a day.

For the third consecutive year, North Dakota has been named the leading state in the nation for housing growth.

A new law that's making it's way through the North Carolina legislature would make discussing the chemicals involved in Hydraulic Fracturing illegal.

If you've been around 5th Street and Bowen Avenue, even down to 3rd Street, you'll notice the foot traffic and people going here and there. You'll notice that they are all wearing badges and you'll also notice the big buses. The Bismarck Civic Center is hosting the Annual Williston Basin Petroleum Conference this week.

With drilling and extracting technology rapidly improving, what was once thought an impossible place to drill has become the 2nd largest oil production area in the United States.