WILLISTON, N. D. — In two short years, Bainville, a town with at least 150 residents on the Montana-North Dakota state line, has seen its K-12 school enrollment of 67 nearly double. Lying in the ...

Development is so rapid that environmental concerns about the million-plus gallons of water needed to hydraulically fracture Bakken shale, which releases the trapped oil and gas, has drawn little ...

"Half of engineering is making something silly and seeing if it works.” The Bakken Museum’s summer camps encourage kids to make whatever their imaginations can conjure. Playing around with a ...