John Bartelson, who smokes Marlboro Lights through fingers blackened with tractor grease, may look like an average wheat farmer. He isn't. He's one of North Dakota's new oil barons.

The discovery of oil in North Dakota 69 years ago transformed the state, influencing its economy and politics. ... Its history runs through angry wheat farmers and Air Force bases and floods, ...

BISMARCK, N.D. North Dakota farmer who discovered an oil spill the size of seven football fields while out harvesting wheat says that when he found it, crude was bubbling up out of the ground.

BISMARCK, N.D. – When a pipeline rupture sent more than 20,000 barrels of crude spewing across a North Dakota wheat field, it took nearly two weeks for officials to tell the public about it. ...

BISMARCK N.D. — A North Dakota farmer who discovered an oil spill the size of seven football fields while out harvesting wheat says that when he found it, crude was bubbling up out of the ground.

Farmers and researchers are always looking for the next crop that may help them diversify their operation. Columnist Mychal ...

That year, lawmakers reduced North Dakota's oil extraction tax from 6.5% to 5% and also removed a low-end trigger that allowed the industry to get a tax break when oil prices dropped below a set ...

YORK, N.D. — Despite lack of rainfall, the spring wheat crop is looking good in north central North Dakota. That’s according ...

A Tesoro Logistics LP pipeline has spilled more than 20,000 barrels of crude oil into a North Dakota wheat field, the biggest leak in the state since it became a major U.S. producer.

N.C. Has Allowed a Likely Carcinogen Into Three Rivers Serving 900,000 People Truckers Say Oil and Gas Companies Are Violating Hazardous Materials Transport Regulations In North Carolina ...