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Minot cabs face more calls and longer drives - even to Minnesota - from oil boom
Minot taxi companies are struggling with longer drive times, more calls for service and fares that take cabs as far as Minnesota, the Minot Daily News reports. The Bakken oil field boom has brought...
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Delta adding more flights from MSP to Bakken oil fields
Delta Air Lines will begin twice-daily flights between the Twin Cities and western North Dakota oil town Dickinson starting June 10. U.S. Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., told The Associated Press that the...
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Second oil refinery planned for North Dakota's Bakken region
Despite all the oil that North Dakota produces, there is only one refinery in the state. MDU Resources Group plans to change that. Bismarck, N.D.-based MDU (NYSE: MDU) is planning to build a $300...
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Dakota Plains names Texas energy executive as CEO
Dakota Plains, a Wayzata-based company that transports oil out of North Dakota's Williston Basin, has named Texas energy executive Craig McKenzie as chairman and CEO. McKenzie replaces Gabriel...
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Delta Air Lines takes first shipment of N.D. crude oil at its new...
Delta Air Lines has received its first shipment of North Dakota crude oil at the Pennsylvania refinery it bought last year. North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple said in a news release Wednesday that the...
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Supreme Court: Locked-out N.D. American Crystal workers can get jobless benefits
About 420 workers who are locked out at an American Crystal Sugar North Dakota facility are eligible for unemployment benefits, the state Supreme Court has ruled. The 3-2 decision, which overturns a...
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Xcel proposes three new power plants, including one in Twin Cities
Xcel Energy wants to build three new natural gas-fired power plants, including its first two in North Dakota. Minneapolis-based Xcel (NYSE: XEL) wants to build two 215-megawatt plants near Hankinson,...
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Home Depot makes a one-time exception so it can get in on the oil boom
How urgently does The Home Depot want to get into the oil-boom area in western North Dakota? Consider that for the first time in the company's history, Home Depot is converting an existing building...
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Kodiak paying $660M for North Dakota properties
Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp. said Monday it will pay $660 million to acquire producing properties and undeveloped leasehold in North Dakota's Williston Basin. The seller is another Denver company,...
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Where Buffalo Wild Wings doubles the minimum wage
The labor pool is so tight in Williston, N.D., that Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. must pay a premium to staff its kitchen there, then help workers find housing. That's one takeaway from a story by CNBC about...
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