WILLISTON, N.D. - North Dakota has fewer than 60 drilling rigs operating in the state for the first time since 2009, about a third of what were operating a year ago.

BISMARCK — A new Trump administration decision has cleared the way for oil and gas drilling on more than 200,000 acres of the Little Missouri National Grasslands. The decision by the U.S. Forest ...

WILLISTON, N.D. - Oil companies are drilling faster and focusing on core areas of the Bakken, leading to a surprise increase in North Dakota oil production in May, the state's top regulator said ...

North Dakota's petroleum output fell 5% in July to the lowest mark in a year, while New Mexico officially passed the state as the nation's No. 2 oil producer. "I looked at it and kind of said ...

North Dakota still the nation’s lowest unemployment rate, but not because the state is creating more jobs for drillers. Oil production in North Dakota fell in September on a year-over-year basis ...

North Dakota’s oil industry currently employs more than 40,000 people. Williston, formerly a sleepy town in the northwestern part of the state, has rocketed on the scene as the sixth largest ...

As new horizontal shale-oil-drilling technology made extraction of shale oil feasible in 2000, the rate of leasing and drilling picked up, accelerating dramatically in 2005. (For a brief animated ...

Ray Gerish, a floor hand for Raven Drilling, works on an oil rig drilling into the Bakken shale formation on July 28, 2013 outside Watford City, North Dakota. Andrew Burton / Getty Images ...

BISMARCK - An oil and gas company is working to wake what it calls a sleeping giant in an area of southern North Dakota far outside of the state's traditional drilling region.

FORT BERTHOLD, N.D. - When the U.S. oil boom hit North Dakota a decade ago, wells sprang up quickly on the edges of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, an expanse of prairie and rolling hills ...