An oil rush is on in North Dakota, where production has risen 12-fold since 2000. But along the way, the business has also become dangerous. At least 74 people have died in the Bakken oil fields ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A state official briefed regulators on two separate underground pipelines that companies plan to build ...

Lime Rock, which already operates in North Dakota, is buying the assets as the oil industry contends with the worst crude price crash in more than six years, a drop the fund used to its advantage.

North Dakota fossil fuel companies are set to see a boost from the recent tax and spending cuts bill out of Washington.

Lawrey, a long-time resident of Dickinson, North Dakota, worked in the oil fields most of his adult life and is the main provider for his family. His wife, Sara, ...

North Dakota’s Bakken shale field — once the largest and busiest American shale patch — is showing signs of age, threatening to hold back US oil production as the world thirsts for more crude.

Within two weeks of arriving in North Dakota last July, Kevin McLeod had a job as a roustabout – a laborer in the oil fields. He started at $16 per hour, with opportunities for raises and all ...

Oil companies "are trying to hire with all their might, but they are not finding employees in the industry who want to come back," Helms said, referring to oil-field workers who left North Dakota ...

Booming Oil Fields May Be Giving Sex Trafficking A Boost The oil rush in and around North Dakota has brought an influx of mostly male workers flush with cash. Law enforcement agencies and ...

A decade ago, North Dakota was a wind-swept also-ran in the oil industry. Wildcatters struck oil there in the 1950s, but the rock was too dense to get most of it out, and the fields never amounted ...

North Dakota’s oil industry no longer has to ship all its radioactive waste out of state now that a disposal facility in McKenzie County has started operating, and more sites could be on the way ...

Jennifer Gollan, Reporter: When Brendan Wegner left Wisconsin for the Bakken oil fields, his parents had no idea North Dakota was the deadliest place to work in America.Kevin Wegner, Brendan’s Father: ...