America's wild weather year has hit yet another new high: a devastating dozen billion-dollar catastrophes.

U.S. government forecasters announced Thursday they expect three to six major hurricanes from an above average Atlantic storm season.

The Obama administration struggled behind the scenes to determine how much oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico from a BP well this year and defended estimates that for months were inaccurate, according to thousands of government e-mails.

The Interior Department's inspector general says the White House edited a drilling safety report in a way that made it falsely appear that scientists and experts supported the administration's six-month ban on new drilling.

A 22-mile-long invisible mist of oil is meandering far below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, where it will probably loiter for months or more, scientists reported Thursday.

Seafood from the Gulf of Mexico is being put under the microscope like no other kind on the market, with fish, shrimp and other catches ground up to hunt for minute traces of oil - far more reassuring than that sniff test that made all the headlines.

Crews found debris in the bottom of the relief well that ultimately will be used to plug the leak for good, retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Friday.

Drip by drip, day by day, the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico is adding up to mind-boggling numbers.

Federal officials shut down fishing from the Mississippi River to the Florida Panhandle on Sunday because of the uncontrolled gusher spewing massive amounts of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, and the environmental disaster is still expected to take at...

"We're in panic mode," says Fisherman Al Cottone.

The Obama administration is following a federal judge's advice.

A Lane Community College student accused of espionage. A Duck season that started like a disaster and might end like a dream. The bodies of two missing girls are found. More haze around medical marijuana. And an open gubernatorial race on the...

A Lane Community College student accused of espionage. A Duck season that started like a disaster and might end like a dream. The bodies of two missing girls are found. More haze around medical marijuana. And an open gubernatorial race on the...