South Dakota State University Extension hosted Wednesday's "Impacts of Energy Community Development Conference" in Belle Fourche all day Wednesday to examine effects of the North Dakota oil boom and ...

Increase in Crime, Traffic, Sex Offenders, 'Man Camps' Feb. 2, 2012 — -- The good things the North Dakota oil boom has brought to little towns like Watford City, N.D. (population 1,744), you ...

GLASGOW – Drug crimes in eastern Montana have more than doubled. Assaults in Dickinson, N.D., have increased fivefold in just two years. And the once-sleepy town of Plentywood has seen three assaults ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — Conservative radio and television host Sean Hannity said government needs to get out of the way so other parts of the United States can replicate the prosperity brought to North ...

RAPID CITY - It's hardly an oil boom, but there are optimistic signs of expanded energy development in South Dakota's limited oil and gas fields. The state actually topped its big-boom neighbor to the ...

North Dakota’s oil boom has been called everything from the region’s equivalent of a gold rush, to its version of Silicon Valley. And it’s all thanks to a the Bakken formation, a 360 million year old ...

THEODORE ROOSEVELT NATIONAL PARK, N.D. -- "I never would have been president," declared the nation's 26th commander-in-chief in 1910, "if it had not been for my experiences in North Dakota." And ...

Breakthrough technology is allowing previously untapped oil to be drilled in the U.S., Canada and South America. And experts say that's moving the... New Boom Reshapes Oil World, Rocks North Dakota A ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Jim Fuglie, former North Dakota Tourism Director, welcomes the economic prosperity the Bakken oil boom brought to the state. But he's wary of how ...