Oil Industry

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FORT YATES, N.D. (AP) — Members of the Standing Rock Sioux and other tribes are protesting a planned pipeline to carry oil from western North Dakota's Bakken oil fields to Illinois.

Are the good times really over for good? That's the chorus to a classic country song, and it's fitting for the oil industry in North Dakota right now. Once and for many years, Western North Dakota had a boom, with people moving to the area for high paying oil related jobs. Vacancies for housing were at an all time high, and property was at a high demand. Local businesses couldn't find enough help

Have you noticed? As the spring and summer season begins, which marks the start of traveling and vacation, the gas prices are starting its annual upward trek. But still, gas prices are lower this year than last year.

WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) — Authorities are investigating a string of thefts from oil production sites in Richland County.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Airline boardings in North Dakota last year reflected the downturn in the oil industry, declining after seven consecutive years of growth.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The number of work-related deaths in the North Dakota oil patch in 2015 dropped from the previous year.

STANLEY, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota regulators have slated a public hearing in Stanley on a proposed $18 million crude oil pipeline in Mountrail County.

WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) — A state advocacy group says the homeless population in the Williston region is dwindling, but the number of people living without adequate shelter is still troubling.

WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) — A Missouri man died in a weekend crash in the western North Dakota oil patch.