In less than a year, Oscar Stohler and his wife, Lorene, 82, have become millionaires from the production of one well on their land near Dunn Center, N.D.

FARGO -- North Dakota has made impressive gains in climbing up the ladder of millionaires per capita. A new report shows North Dakota jumped 14 slots - the biggest rise of any state - in the ...

Western North Dakota accounts for more than a third of the Williston Basin acreage. Through August, the Williston Basin has produced more than 5 billion barrels of oil this year.

Next-door neighbor Minnesota ranked 14th, with a millionaire ratio of 5.56 percent. Still, North Dakota’s rise in millionaires last year was meteoric, thanks largely to the booming Oil Patch.

Only 339 “income millionaires” reported incomes of more than $1 million in 2006, at the dawn of North Dakota’s unprecedented oil boom. 2.

Bruce Gjovig, director of the University of North Dakota's Center for Innovation, said his informal survey estimates the number of new millionaires in Mountrail County, one of the biggest drilling ...

BISMARCK - North Dakota added 79 millionaires to its tax rolls based on annual income last year, but a state Tax Department official said the number could drop this year as depressed crude prices ...

Oil shale making millionaires in North Dakota Oscar Stohler and his wife Lorene are among the millionaires created by the Bakken shale formation, a rich deposit that the U.S. Geological Survey ...

FARGO -- North Dakota edged up another two spots to rank 18th among the states in millionaire households per capita, according to a new wealth ranking.

Oil has made Iverson and many others in North Dakota wealth, but it's hard picking them out. The rhythm of their lives is no different today than before gold was found beneath the grain.

The state Tax Department says the number of North Dakotans reporting income of more than $1 million went up 7.5 percent last year. The agency says 1,120 North Dakota taxpayers reported adjusted ...

The retired men shooting the breeze at Joyce's Cafe in Stanley don't look like oil barons but appearances can be deceptive, especially in North Dakota.