Police said the oil well site and location were evacuated, and SR-87 was temporarily shut down. No one was injured during the incident. Authorities have not released the exact cause of the fire.

The North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality was notified by Hess Corporation that about 40,986 barrels of fresh water was released from a tank on a well pad about three miles southeast of Ray ...

[Mike] lives in a temperate rainforest in Alaska (we figured from his website’s name) and uses a 570 gallon oil tank to supply his furnace. Until now, he had no way of knowing how much oil was ...