WILLISTON, North Dakota - What was once the sleepy town of Williston on the western edge of North Dakota is now wide awake, serving as the epicenter of an oil boom that is changing the landscape ...

U.S. shale can still surprise with undiscovered resources, even as more and more reports emerge suggesting that prime acreage ...

North Dakota's oil boom is a big, probably underappreciated story. As the rest of the United States tumbled into the Great Recession in 2008, sending national unemployment as high as 10 percent ...

North Dakota's oil production was estimated to be down by between 125,000 barrels per day (bpd) and 150,000 bpd due to ...

The extreme North Dakota cold is known to disrupt several industries, including the production of oil and natural gas.

A plan was finalized Tuesday that puts most federally owned coal in North Dakota out of development potential by 2040. Will ...

Oil and gas are key to the economy of North Dakota, where hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling began an oil boom in the late 2000s. State officials pegged a preliminary all-time high of ...

North Dakota has seen an increase in demand for prostitution as more and more people flock to the state's burgeoning oil region. Most of these oil workers arrested for solicitation are unaware ...

Former North Dakota governor Doug Burgum, an outspoken proponent of carbon capture, committed to making his state carbon neutral by 2030.

Rising electricity demands associated with the state's recent oil boom and population growth ... have led some grid operators to refer to northwest North Dakota as the "Williston Load Pocket." ...

The numbers and information comes from the state’s pipeline authority in a Monday report. North Dakota is the third best ...