In Harper County, Kansas, oil companies are offering farmers up to $1,250 an acre for the mineral rights that allow them to drill for oil on their property. More
Multiple tornados touched down in southern Kansas on May 19 destroying a home, shredding wind turbines and knocking over oil tanks.
Quiet Kansas farm towns are quickly transforming into boomtowns as new technologies make drilling along the southern border of the state more attractive.
A church in Harper County, Kansas, added new air conditioning and renovated a steeple thanks to money from oil leases on its land.
Boomtowns can recede as quickly as they rise -- and in the oil towns of North Dakota, a bust could leave a devastating wake.
On the road with Blake Ellis and Jordan Malter as they travel through the oil boomtowns of Northwestern North Dakota.
The explosive growth in the small towns surrounding the Bakken oil formation in North Dakota, has led to a surge in accidents and patients, putting an incredible strain on local medical providers.
These six men have traveled from far and wide to cash in on the oil boom in Williston, North Dakota. But due to the severe housing crunch in the area, the only place they have to call home right now is the Walmart parking lot.
From hauling crude in semi-trucks to getting their hands dirty out at the oil rigs, these women are living in America's newest boomtown and are hard at work in a traditionally male-dominated world.
It takes a certain personality to work in the oil fields of North Dakota. Meet a few of the woman who live it.
Thanks to the oil boom in North Dakota, students at Williston State College are being offered $100,000-plus salaries to go work for the oil companies.
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