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Surrounded by wolves in a North Dakota oil town
Todd Melby May 3, 2013
A young woman takes action to feel safe in an oil boomtown filled with lonely and sometimes aggressive men.
Natural gas prices skyrockets, will wells and fracking follow?
David Weinberg Apr 29, 2013
Natural gas prices are at a two-year high. Does this mean even more natural gas in our lives?
Oil-boom sprawl swallows a North Dakota city
Todd Melby Mar 8, 2013
The oil industry and the thousands of workers it's attracted have swallowed up communities like Williston, N.D., where neighborhoods on the edge of town now feel like they're in the center.
Not everyone in oil-boom country finds what they want
Todd Melby Jan 8, 2013
The oil boom in North Dakota has attracted tens of thousands of people looking for work. There are a lot of jobs, but it's not a boom for everyone.
Flow of political money may continue in Massachusetts
Curt Nickisch Dec 17, 2012
With U.S. Sen. John Kerry on the short list to become Secretary of State, Massachusetts could be in line for its third U.S. Senate election in just more than two years. It's meant big bucks spent in advertising.
Seeing opportunity in North Dakota's oil boom
Todd Melby Dec 11, 2012
Daniel Brock was happily teaching. Then he heard about jobs in the oil fields of North Dakota. Now he's happily working there.
Railroads profit from oil boom in North Dakota
Eve Troeh Dec 10, 2012
Trains haul fracking supplies into the region and haul oil out of it. The oil boom comes at a good time: the railroads' mainstay, coal, is in a slump.
Oil boom family is cramped but together
Laura Candler Dec 5, 2012
A year after her husband moved to North Dakota's oil fields from their home in Missouri, Shannon Atwell picked up her four boys and joined him.
The oil boom: Born to be a roughneck
Todd Melby Dec 5, 2012
Richard Karpe had his first roughneck job at age 11, on a rig run by his stepfather. He talks about the roughneck life and its hazards.
The oil boom: Making a living off the workers
Todd Melby Dec 5, 2012
In any mining boom, some people are there to work in it, others are there to supply them. Need a knife in Williston, N.D.? Talk to Bobcat John.
