Decades of research shows waves, wind and darkness would defeat containment efforts for much of the year, raising questions ...

The Stewart C. Meyer Library in Harker Heights hold classes designed to accommodate home-schooled students and Wednesday the ...

The oil leak triggered by a deadly rig blast off the coast of Louisiana has the potential to cause more environmental damage than the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, one of the largest ecological disasters ...

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About 10,000 gallons of crude oil is still buried under the shoreline where the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in 1989, and continues to affect wildlife, a group of scientists said. Jeff Short, a ...

Every day, millions of gallons of oil move from the Arctic through the trans-Alaska pipeline to the small coastal town of Valdez, 600 miles away. There, high above the waters of Prince William Sound, ...

Joe Hazelwood, captain of the doomed oil tanker Exxon Valdez, is offering "a very heartfelt apology" to Alaskans for the disastrous 1989 oil spill in Prince William Sound. The apology comes at the end ...

Red Rover, a Sacramento-based animal welfare organization, celebrated its 300th deployment on Wednesday, providing vital ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Joseph Hazelwood, ...