Joshua Doubek, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Few technical terms carry as much ambiguity or provoke as much confusion as ...

GRAND FORKS -- On June 30, Dexter Perkins wrote about the "serious health and environmental risks" caused by hydraulic fracturing or fracking (column, Page C4). Perkins and I are faculty members in ...

Two technologies—hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking,” and horizontal drilling—have transformed the United States from an also-ran into a frontrunner in terms of energy production. These ...

WILLISTON — Oil companies are hiring in the Bakken, and more jobs are expected to open up next year. Job Service North Dakota announced six oil companies are looking for workers to man fracking crews ...

Kris Kitko of Bismarck said she gets threatening messages every day from people who don't like the content of the "Bakken Watch" website that she and a few others founded several months ago as an ...