WILLISTON, N.D. - The Bakken oil boom is now five times larger than the area's 1980s oil boom, according to a new report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Economists released this week an ...

Oil output from the Bakken, the second-largest US shale field, is showing signs of a slowdown as flows on a key pipeline out of the region decline.

BISMARCK, N.D. — Oil drillers targeting the rich Bakken shale formation in western North Dakota and Eastern Montana have produced 1 billion barrels of crude, data from the two states show. Drillers ...

EASTERN MONTANA — Like wagon trains of yesteryear, the traffic tells the tale of the Bakken oil boom. Semitrailers haul sand, liquid nitrogen, pipe, tanks and modular homes across Montana to the oil ...

GRAND FORKS -- Satellite images that circulated the Internet more than two years ago purported to show natural gas flares lighting up the Bakken Oil Patch as bright as a major metropolitan city were ...

“Hard Road Home” is a coming-of-age story set at the height of the Bakken oil boom. The principal heroine, Amanda Swensen, is a city girl working as a receptionist in a Bismarck medical office. One ...