Watford City News

We know that the oil boom has brought many more people to our state, and with them come many more needs.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration tells KXMC-TV that 38-year-old Richard Ries of Salem, South Dakota, died Jan.

The oil boom near Williston, ND has drastically changed that area in just the past couple of years.

A pipeline company is asking state and federal regulators for permission to build an oil pipeline beneath North Dakota's Lake Sakakawea.

The alert includes the cities of Watford City and Williston, as well as surrounding areas.

In the last two years, Williston school superintendent Viola LaFontaine has had to manage an influx of 480 new students brought by the region's oil boom, an increase of 22 percent.

A lot goes on behind the scenes to provide the kind of performance that the Minot Symphony Orchestra will put on Saturday at the Ann Nicole Nelson Hall at Minot State University.

Law Enforcement is facing more crime in North Western North Dakota than ever before.

Affordable housing and better roads are on every towns wish list in oil country.

Gov. Jack Dalrymple, Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., and other officials were on hand for the ceremonies.

Several North Dakota politicians were on had for the opening of a new natural gas processing facility.

The amount of natural gas that is torched and wasted daily by drillers in North Dakota's oil patch could heat more than 2,300 homes in the state for a year though progress is being made to better capture the commodity, a state regulator says.