GLASGOW, Mont. (AP) -- Booming oil production across a wide expanse of the Northern Plains is forcing law enforcement from the U.S. and Canada to deal with spiking crimes ranging from drug trafficking ...

The refinement of horizontal drilling combined with hydraulic fracturing, called fracking, has made this boom possible. In fracking, drillers fire a million gallons or more of water mixed with sand ...

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 ...

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 ...

Montana’s Bakken produces roughly $1.2 billion worth of oil per year. A steady stream of trucks haul food, gravel, scoria, sand, natural gas, crude oil, pipe, asphalt, concrete, fresh water and liquid ...

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 ...

BISMARCK, N.D. - The godfather of North Dakota's present oil bonanza predicted the state's crude production will double to 2 million barrels daily by decade's end but warned industry officials ...

This town suddenly finds itself at the epicenter of the Bakken oil boom. A tidal wave of oil money has erased the dusty, forlorn crossroads that once stood here and replaced it with a bustling ...

Last week, I wrote about a whimsical airplane journey I took a couple of weeks ago with a North Dakotan who is a key player in the Bakken oil boom. We flew in a small, funky yellow two-seat plane from ...

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 ...

Oil production in the Bakken employs 72,000 people across the state, said Rob Lindberg, director of Bakken Backers, a nonprofit organization supporting the oil industry. While there is less activity ...