May 31, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
BISMARCK For years, the North Dakota Department of Transportation has built roads to handle trucks carrying sugar beets and moderate traffic. Now, it’s heavy oil tankers and thousands more vehicles. Continue Reading
May 30, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
WATFORD CIT I seriously considered phoning this assignment in.
I feared that driving from Williston to Watford City in heavy rain Thursday on a deadly stretch of Oil Patch highway to a press conference on road safety might make me another statistic. Continue Reading
May 23, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
BISMARCK An energy company has received approval to start construction of a new natural gas processing plant in northwestern North Dakota. Continue Reading
May 11, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
TIOGA After Las Vegas chiropractor Stephen Alexander had 65 patients relocate to North Dakota, it wasn’t long before his phone started ringing. The men who moved to northwest North Dakota to work in the Oil Patch struggled to find chiropractors available and called “Dr. Steve” for help. Continue Reading
April 11, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
WATFORD CITY Driving on U.S. Highway 85 between here and Williston is “like taking your life in your hands,” says Watford City Mayor Brent Sanford. Continue Reading
April 1, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
A 27-year-old man from Anchorage, Alaska, is dead after losing control of his pickup, driving off Highway 85 and rolling the vehicle multiple times on at about 9:20 p.m. Sunday. Continue Reading
March 26, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
Donald Diederich knew he had earned medals in World War II. But he never thought he would see them. Continue Reading
March 13, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
An industrial facility near Watford City caught fire Tuesday morning, sending multi-colored smoke bellowing and causing the evacuation of some area residents. Continue Reading
March 9, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
WATFORD CITY Jake Walters spent about half of 2012 commuting from southern California to Watford City, sleeping on the floor of an RV and video chatting with his young family back home. Continue Reading
March 8, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
Predicting the future is no easy task, especially for cities in the booming western North Dakota Oil Patch. Predicting the future number of students at any given school in that same area may seem a daunting chore. Continue Reading
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