GRAND FORKS - When John Harju graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1986, it was a bad time to be a geologist in the state. "It was an absolutely dismal time, there was no work," Harju said ...

An oil truck sits in a dirt lot near a new housing development in Watford City, N.D. The housing development is part of the town’s explosion of growth from the Baaken oil boom. For years, the town’s ...

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 ...

Then in 2010, the oil started to flow. True to its reputation for size, the boom in Texas is now pumping 3 million barrels a day, and few believe that number will fall any time soon. Where North ...

DICKINSON, N.D. - The Bakken oil boom provided a huge influx of money to North Dakota, but the cost of that success was absorbed by so-called "Hub Cities," whose request for more aid is under scrutiny ...

DICKINSON -- The Bakken oil boom may be over, but people on the front lines of fighting crime in western North Dakota say drug trafficking is worse than ever. The price of drugs is dropping and an ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Energy companies behind the oil boom on the Northern Plains are increasingly turning to an industrial-age workhorse - the locomotive - to move their crude to refineries across ...

LAUREL, Mont. -- Last spring, Daniel Boman and Jim Auth were working hard to establish a modular housing plant in Puerto Rico. They had purchased an assembly line in Georgia and shipped it to Puerto ...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright, left, and Sen. John Hoeven lead a roundtable discussion on enhanced oil recovery on Aug. 13, 2025, in Grand Forks, N.D. (Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor) GRAND FORKS, ...