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    September 20, 2017
    A train takes oil by rail out of Williston, ND. The boom has passed for the town but advances in technology has kept the Bakken competative with global markets, keeping western North Dakota from a receeding economy. (Joshua Komer/Grand Forks Herald)
    After the oil boom, how does North Dakota move on?
    WATFORD CITY, N.D. — Imagine your city's population growing from 1,744 resident to nearly 7,500 in one year. That was reality for Watford...
    news/government-and-politicsSeptember 20, 2017 - 5:52pm
    March 21, 2017
    Northwest ND county clarifies crew camp ordinance
    WILLISTON, N.D.—Notices will be going out next week from Williams County in the far northwest part of North Dakota telling crew camp operators who don't comply with county ordinances that they have 90 days to return their properties to compliance or cease operation and return...
    newsMarch 21, 2017 - 9:56pm
    January 11, 2017
    Smokes rises after an oil tank explosion over the weekend near Sidney, Mont., and the North Dakota border. Submitted photo
    Oil tank explosion near ND border felt miles away
    SIDNEY, Mont.—Investigators on Wednesday said they still aren't certain what caused the explosion Saturday at an oil well site near Sidney...
    newsJanuary 11, 2017 - 9:23pm
    December 20, 2016
    Two protesters convicted in first pipeline jury trial
    MANDAN, N.D.—Two pipeline protesters were convicted Tuesday of misdemeanors in the first Dakota Access-related jury trial in Morton County....
    newsDecember 20, 2016 - 10:14pm
    December 19, 2016
    Eugene Dauenhauer, left, and son Daryl Dauenhauer of Mandan needed to walk past a group of protesters as they made their way into the Morton County Courthouse in Mandan on Monday morning for other business. The protesters were also inside the courthouse where a jury selection process was underway for 10 protesters involved with arrests at the Dakota Access Pipeline. Photo by Tom Stromme / Bismarck Tribune.
    Monday trial of 10 pipeline protesters postponed
    MANDAN, N.D.—The first pipeline protester trial scheduled to start Monday morning was postponed after the judge learned that not all 10...
    newsDecember 19, 2016 - 6:40pm
    December 15, 2016
    More than 100 protesters marched in wintry conditions Thursday from the Polk County Courthouse through downtown Des Moines streets to nearby Cowles Commons to rally in opposition to an underground oil pipeline project being built to link the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota with a shipping hub in Illinois by passing in a diagonal 346-mile line through 18 Iowa counties. Photo by Rod Boshart
    Dakota Access Pipeline also still in court in Iowa
    DES MOINES, Iowa - Competing attorneys gave a district judge reasons Thursday why he should either allow a controversial oil pipeline already...
    newsDecember 15, 2016 - 4:16pm
    December 8, 2016
    A law enforcement officer speaks to a protester against the Dakota Access Pipeline through a wall of razor wire on the Backwater Bridge over Cantapeta Creek on Thursday afternoon. Protesters have been trespassing at the site and cutting wire in attempts to gain access to the pipeline work area in southern Morton County. Photo by Tom Stromme / Bismarck Tribune
    It's transition time at protest camps as people start leaving
    CANNON BALL, N.D.—Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II said the tribe was working Thursday to help people leave the...
    newsDecember 8, 2016 - 10:21pm
    November 14, 2016
    North Dakota geography reduces induced earthquake potential
    BISMARCK—The geology of western North Dakota provides an ideal place to dispose of waste saltwater from oil production, according to Ed Murphy, state geologist for North Dakota. Induced seismic activity, earthquakes brought about by human actions, has made news in Oklahoma recently....
    newsNovember 14, 2016 - 3:32pm
    October 3, 2016
    Photo by Elizabeth Graham /Williston Herald From left, Isaac Mokasa, Vadi Batumbi, Pachely Leezi, Manteka Bindimba and Patrick Kabakodi drove to Williston from Illinois with the hope of finding higher-paying jobs in construction and the oil field.
    People still moving to Williston looking for work
    WILLISTON—Tshala Kadima and five of her friends were working at a meat processing factory in Illinois when they heard about the money to...
    newsOctober 3, 2016 - 7:35pm
    September 27, 2016
    Industrial Commission looks for compromise on oil and gas rules
    BISMARCK—Five rules governing oil work sites have been delayed by an interim committee with the likelihood they will not be implemented this construction season. "Now, we'll have lost a construction season," said Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem, a member of the North Dakota...
    newsSeptember 27, 2016 - 6:07pm
    September 26, 2016
    Workers pour concrete during the construction of the Williston Apartments last year. A statewide housing assessment released in August predicts continuing population growth for northwestern North Dakota, resulting in the need for more housing. File photo
    Watford City may rival Williston in size, some believe
    WATFORD CITY, N.D.—With massive growth in population predicted in Divide, McKenzie and Williams counties over the next decade, some are...
    newsSeptember 26, 2016 - 6:08pm
    July 22, 2016
    Mike Johnson will be leading a ground-breaking new program in the Bakken that could help laid-off oil and gas workers get rolling again in either that or a new sector. Dawson Community College in Montana is offering a new degree in corrosion control. (submitted photo)
    College program targets oil industry need; Corrosion control program is one of three in nation
    GLENDIVE, Mont. -- There are three places in the country where you can get a degree in corrosion control technology, and the latest of them is...
    newsJuly 22, 2016 - 4:05pm
    May 26, 2016
    Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a news conference in Bismarck, North Dakota US May 26, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst play button
    Trump ready to unleash oil industry
    BISMARCK – Donald Trump pledged ‘complete’ American energy independence and a focus on putting workers before regulations Thursday to a...
    newsMay 26, 2016 - 7:23pm
    A woman walks past a map showing the elevation of the sea in the last 22 years during the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, France, December 11, 2015. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
    Oil industry sees Paris climate deal as chance to innovate
    HOUSTON -- If a crisis is a terrible thing to waste, the oil industry sees the Paris climate accord not as a death knell, but an opportunity...
    business/energy-and-miningFebruary 26, 2016 - 4:42pm
    February 21, 2016
    Despite N.D. budget cuts, some don't expect repeat of 1980s
    BISMARCK -- Falling commodity prices and state budget cuts may be prompting some North Dakotans to fear a case of deja vu is coming on. In some ways, the economic slowdown the state is now experiencing mirrors what it went through in the 1980s. That era saw oil prices and farm incomes...
    newsFebruary 21, 2016 - 6:17am
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