North Dakota

Four Directions is targeting states with voter ID laws, like Wisconsin and North Dakota, as well as those with low Native American turnout, like Nevada.

Indigenous high schoolers are organizing to let their families vote in an election they argue is designed to block them from the polls.

It now appears Native American North Dakotans are unable to vote, even when they have proof of their residential addresses.

Rights activists are urging communities of color to get creative about circumventing attempts to suppress their vote ahead of next month's decisive mid-term elections.

How we uncovered the numbers behind pipeline construction fatalities.

Dozens of American counties saw hundreds, if not thousands, of new units developed between 2015 and 2016.

Watford City, North Dakota: Drillers perfect "the curve," a 1,000-foot portion of the oil well where the line gradually shifts from vertical to horizontal, on the Raven Drilling company rig.

Do the last few weeks mark a turning point for environmental activism?

In North Dakota’s oil boomtowns, rape, sex trafficking, and domestic violence rates are spiking, with American Indian women suffering the most. Now tribes along the Keystone XL pipeline route worry that the violence could be headed their way—and tribal police may be unable to stop it.

Can the lessons of small-town North Dakota be applied to the big city?

To kick off our week-long series on booms and busts, Jamie Wiebe looks to North Dakota, currently the fastest-growing state in the union, to see how local planners are preparing for what's widely considered to be an inevitable crash.

As oil trains derail across the United States, a windswept—and vulnerable—stretch of Montana’s Glacier National Park underscores the folly of transporting crude by rail.

Elizabeth Royte finds herself stranded in Williston, North Dakota, at the heart of a new oil boom in the United States.

Gulfstreams and Dassault Falcons crowd the skies over Williston, North Dakota.