There are lessons to be learned from Williston’s struggle in the aftermath of North Dakota’s fracking boom, as its experience is the time-lapsed story of many American cities.

Williston, North Dakota was the fastest-growing "micro" area in the United States between 2010 and 2020. ... we never thought that we would have a sushi restaurant right next door to city hall." ...

The discovery of oil in northwestern North Dakota turned several small towns into unexpected boomtowns from 2006 to 2014. But the end of the boom spelled economic disaster for many of the new ...

WILLISTON, N.D. -- Some Oil Patch "man camps," with rows of dormitory rooms and cabins, are bigger than many North Dakota cities. While the camps have been an answer to the housing crunch created ...

In Williston, North Dakota, pumpjacks stand tall in bright yellow sunflower patches and work in rhythm amid vast fields of wheat atop the Bakken oil patch in a town that’s nestled in the small ...

It’s one way of characterizing the now infamous oil boom that doubled the city’s population between 2010 and 2020, with an influx of workers eager to get to the oilfields.