BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – Prosecutors have netted a string of guilty pleas among the suspects in an interstate drug trafficking case that’s highlighted the criminal underside of an oil boom sweeping the ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – A Montana man severely burned in a Bakken oil patch fire has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with a Texas company accused of providing him insufficient training and ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A West Virginia man who told authorities he was hitchhiking across the country and writing a memoir about kindness was injured in a seemingly random drive-by shooting near ...

BILLINGS – The booming Bakken oil patch that’s given a major boost to U.S. energy production has emerged as a new front in the fight against drug trafficking. Organized crime rings are popping up in ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. BILLINGS, Mont. • Following a string of explosive accidents, federal officials said Thursday that crude oil being shipped by rail ...

GRAND FORKS -- Satellite images that circulated the Internet more than two years ago purported to show natural gas flares lighting up the Bakken Oil Patch as bright as a major metropolitan city were ...

BILLINGS, Mont. | The booming Bakken oil patch that's given a major boost to U.S. energy production has emerged as a new front in the fight against drug trafficking. Organized crime rings are popping ...

A parallel Bakken-focused effort in North Dakota in July charged 22 people with conspiracy to sell heroin and other drugs on an Indian reservation in the heart of the oil patch. Authorities linked ...