BILLINGS – A Big Timber man admitted to federal charges related to a large methamphetamine trafficking ring that brought the drug from Washington to the Bakken oil fields in eastern Montana and ...

JORDAN — Talk of a "mini Bakken" beneath this windswept plain has the 350 people of Jordan talking big. "My daughter thinks we're going to be the next Williston," said Janet Sherer. "I hope not.

The pessimists are right for now: The Heath oil play cutting a swath across Central Montana is no match for the Bakken. In fact, a handful of companies drilling in this shale formation in Central ...

Sheppard counts herself among the hundreds of Sacagawea descendants on the Fort Berthold Reservation, homeland of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation. Sacagawea’s Hidatsa descendants ...