Oil in North Dakota Brings Job Boom and Burdens
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Some hope the oil industry will prompt business and workers to return to the state, where the population peaked in 1930.
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The US offers rights for oil and gas in an area of north-western Alaska renowned for its wildlife.
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Forecasts for a warm winter may spell relief for households and businesses in the U.S. Northeast dealing with record high heating oil prices.
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For about 40 years, state workers have been dumping saltwater left over from oil production on some North Dakota roads. That's news to the health department, which wants the practice stopped.
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Oil prices broke above $46 a barrel on  Tuesday as a cold spell loomed for the U.S. Northeast heating  oil market and a rash of supply problems afflicted big global  producers.
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Any serious effort to ease America&#39;s addiction to Middle East oil starts near this Alberta boomtown cut out of Canada&#39;s great boreal forest.
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Just at the moment the U.S. economy could use a boost, the recent surge in oil prices is having the opposite effect.
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With the price of gasoline and home heating oil no longer comfortably affordable, the benefits of living in rural New Hampshire have also become burdens for many people.
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The sharp rise in oil prices which recently creeps towards $60 per barrel has put many energy industries and those reliant on energy on the edge for fear of the adverse affects of escalating prices.
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By Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun. 25--DICKINSON, N.D. -- We hadn't even hit the water, and already, this was turning into a memorable fishing trip -- in the very best sense of the word.
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Crude oil rose and natural gas soared in New York as the approach of Hurricane Ivan disrupted production and tanker shipments in the Gulf of Mexico, where a quarter of US oil and natural gas is pumped.
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NEW HAVEN -- A sluggish job market in Connecticut is raising concerns that something is amiss in a state long synonymous with wealth.
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As job growth has picked up in many areas of the country, employment has continued to falter in some crucial battleground states.
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A look at how government does business with the oil industry.
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Oil prices have gone up sharply in the past month because of production snags in the Gulf of Mexico, where more than 22.6 million barrels of production have been lost since Hurricane Ivan hit mid-September.
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RADCLIFFE, Iowa -- Corn farmer Jim Handsaker has found a slew of ways to ride the heartland boom in biofuels that is reshaping the economy of rural Iowa.
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Successful cold-weather tests in North Dakota of a synthetic fuel blend that could be made from coal or natural gas shows the Air Force a way to wean itself from foreign crude. By the Associated Press.