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 ...

A state official briefed regulators on two separate underground pipelines that companies plan to build across hundreds of ...

When oil comes out of the ground, it is accompanied by natural gas. And in newly tapped areas such as North Dakota’s Bakken formation, drillers without access to pipelines often resort to ...

Two companies are seeking financial guarantee for as much as $500 million from state officials to build a pipeline moving ...

In 2008, prodded by North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan, the USGS reassessed the Bakken field.Based on new survey techniques, advances in extraction technology and newly discovered reserves, that ...

North Dakota's rich Bakken oil fields produced almost 9% of America's domestic crude oil production for the month of October, up from less than 2% of the nation's oil in 2006 ...

Billionaire Harold Hamm is convinced thereʼs 24 billion barrels of oil to be coaxed from the Bakken field of North Dakota and Montana. No one has more acres there than he does.

Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are flocking to North Dakota's oil fields, braving new dangers and spartan lives to chase after big pay days.

Workforce shortages in the oil fields of North Dakota are attracting Ukrainian refugees who’ve fled their homeland due to Russia’s war. A humanitarian program known as Uniting for Ukraine has ...

About 160 Ukrainians have arrived in North Dakota, the majority in Bismarck, as part of Uniting for Ukraine, according to State Refugee Coordinator Holly Triska-Dally.

North Dakota's Bakken Shale oil fields are getting some new plumbing. Pipeline news announced this week indicate another 885,000 barrels of oil a day could be carried out of the state by 2016 on ...

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: ...