02/03/2012 Meeting in western South Dakota focuses on oil boom's problems, potential BELLE FOURCHE, S.D. (AP) - North Dakota's oil boom brings with it tremendous wealth and enormous problems - and both are coming to South Dakota, say organizers of a Thursday night event dubbed "Coming Down the Pipe."

01/24/2012 Belle Fourche Chamber Meeting The Belle Fourche Chamber of Commerce has invited a panel of knowledgeable professionals to discuss transportation, housing, economic opportunities and the positive and negative issues dealing with rapid growth in western North Dakota due to the oil boom.

01/11/2012 Building tomorrow's roads today: Legislators to learn about design-build North Dakota legislators will soon learn of a concept currently not in use for road construction in North Dakota that could help speed up the process of designing and improving highways.

01/08/2012 North Platte: 687.31 miles from the epicenter There is no escape from the oil boom. A few days before Christmas I drove down to northwestern Kansas and back to fetch my daughter. Just after New Year's I took her back down to Kansas. Altogether I drove 3,175 miles-every one of them, because she apparently misplaced her driver's license. That sounds grueling but I actually love it. I love to experience the Great Plains in their broad and endless sweep.

01/03/2012 ND fatalities up, especially in booming oil patch As traffic has increased in western North Dakota's booming oil patch, so have fatal vehicle crashes

01/03/2012 Bringing out the big rigs; 43,000 more wide-load permits issued in ND Move over North Dakota drivers, because there are thousands more oversized semis on the roads than last year, officials say.

12/27/2011 Public Information Meeting Public Information Meeting to be held January 5, to discuss proposed improvements to US Highway 2 in Williston and intersection improvements from the west junction of US Highway 85 east to 42nd Street west.

12/27/2011 Watford City named top places to raise your kids Watford City appeared on Bloomberg Businessweek's list of the 2012 Top Places to Raise Your Kids

12/22/2011 Governor drives roads: Dalrymple meets with area officials on traffic needs, updates The North Dakota governor hit the road in oil patch country Monday, traveling on roads south of Williston.

11/25/2011 Belle Fourche Traffic Result Of ND Oil Bonanza Highway 85 runs through the heart of Belle Fourche; it's also a major route to the North Dakota oil fields.

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