• SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) -- North Dakota officials are telling business and government leaders in South Dakota to prepare for both opportunities and challenges when the oil boom moves south.
• More than 150 lawmakers and business leaders are at a two-day conference in the western South Dakota city of Spearfish to talk about how officials can prepare for an oil boom.
• Former North Dakota Commerce Commissioner Shane Goettle (GEHT'-uhl) says North Dakota officials were unprepared for the influx of people to that state's oil

patch. He's telling people in South Dakota that planning is critical because once a South Dakota oil well proves productive, it will be like "the faucet gets turned on."
• Spearfish Economic Development Director Bryan Walker says officials plan a trip to Williston in the heart of the North Dakota oil patch.
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