Watford City News

Starting next week, a stretch of Highway 85 in western North Dakota will be closed at night for repairs.

North Dakota transportation officials say U.S. Highway 85 about 14 miles south of Watford City will be closed to all traffic during nighttime hours starting Monday.

Highway 85 is a major transit route for oil trucks between and beyond Williston and Watford City.

By Cecile Krimm In a history-making meeting Tuesday last week, the Crosby Park Board voted to hire Bob Gillen, a well-regarded parks and recreation manager, to launch a recreation council in the city.

A Salt Lake City real estate developer with 40 years of experience in the building industry believes the oil boom in western North Dakota presents the biggest opportunity for builders in decades.

A family joke about living in an RV parked in a pole barn has led a Minnesota contractor to come up with a new housing solution for the Bakken Oil Patch : an indoor RV park.

Hundreds of oil prospectors have waltzed into North Dakota with wide eyes and even bigger promises.

Imagine if your home town tripled in two year's time. That's a reality facing western North Dakota residents living in the Bakken Oil fields.

Watford City has hand-delivered notices to nine food vendors saying it is planning to locate all of them at the fairgrounds west of town.

Oil and gas production in the U.S. is rising, and U.S. is expected to be less dependent on foreign energy in the coming years.

In April, a group representing 350 companies working in North Dakota's booming oil industry announced a new program to clean up the human waste, old tires and other trash littering the state's highways.

A Minnesota businessman has come up with a unique approach to helping ease the housing shortage in western North Dakota's booming oil patch - an indoor park for recreational vehicles.

Atigun Inc. said April 30 that its new facility, headed up by General Manager Jerry Olson, based in Minot, N.D., is slated to open and be operational Oct.