BISMARCK, N.D. – (North Dakota Monitor) – North Dakota’s congressional delegation emphasized the elimination of tax credits ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

Peterson is certainly qualified to fill this role, based on his years of experience with the critical work of the North ...

BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, US — At the group’s July 1 board meeting, Jim Peterson was elected administrator of the North Dakota Wheat Commission. In the role, he succeeds Neal Fisher, who had been ...

In 1950, convinced there was oil to be found, the Amerada Petroleum Corporation began drilling in a wheat field a few miles outside of Tioga, a small town in the northwest corner of North Dakota.

While the 2006–2014 Bakken Play shale boom is over, and the days when oil rigs were anchored on the prairie like ships on seas of waving wheat are long gone, North Dakota’s oil industry has ...

The cause of the rupture and the total volume of oil released after the North Dakota spill remain ... of a pipeline break that spilled more than 20,000 barrels of oil into a Tioga, N.D., wheat ...

Yes, the Peace Garden State is known for its wheat, corn and soybean fields, cattle ranches and immense oil reserves. But it’s also a place of fertile imagination and an inventive nature that ...

On the western half of the state, oil and gas wells dot the Bakken shale, and farmers swap small grains, such as wheat, barley and oats, traditionally grown in the region, for corn and soybeans ...