The offshore oil-drilling blast killed 11 people, caused thousands to lose their jobs and poisoned more than a million birds.

The Mobile County Commission celebrated the completion of a new 900-foot boardwalk Friday at Bayfront Park, marking another ...

Environmental groups sued the Trump administration on Monday over its approval of oil company BP’s ultra deep-water drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico.

FILE - A plume of smoke rises from fires on BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the ...

Jackson, Miss. is known for its water — and not in a good way. Beyond the attention grabbing boil water notices, residents have had to deal with expensive water bills for years. For the latest utility ...

On April 20, 2010, an explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon BP oil rig off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers and caused a massive oil spill.

Federal committee exempts Gulf drilling from protections for the Rice's whale, an endangered species with around 50 individuals left.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (500 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean, the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the ...