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A stretch of North Dakota highway witnesses oil’s boom and bust
Oil prices have been dropping since the industry’s boom in 2014, and with that decline comes economic uncertainty for oil towns like Dickinson, North Dakota. Over 180 rigs drilled at the nearby Bakken oil field two years ago; only 27…
Listen to U.S. coal production fall off a cliff
Coal has been up and down since 2010, with more downs than ups. And in the past year, it fell off a virtual cliff. Here's what it sounds like.
The life of the linemen who keep your lights on
On a bitterly cold March morning in Denver, snow was forecast to start falling any minute. Time for Kevin Hinrichs and his crew to head out on the job.
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What the return of high school football means to an oil boom town
Like so many small towns on the Great Plains, Alexander, North Dakota, had been shrinking as more and more young people moved away. But for the first time in 28 years, Alexander has a football team, thanks largely to an…
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