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Hurricane Ian delivered an eerie omen to coastal Florida residents Wednesday morning: Its winds pulled massive amounts of water out of Tampa Bay and other areas.

Oregon lawmakers met for an unusual special session last week focused on COVID-19 and racial justice.

Republican leaders in the state legislature say they support President Trump's pledge to combat illegal immigration but want to deal with it and other issues identified by DeSantis on their schedule, not his.

Offshore oil and gas drilling has been a contentious issue in California for 50 years, ever since a rig ruptured and spilled 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil off the Santa Barbara coast in 1969. related Today it’s spurring a new debate: whether to completely dismantle 27 oil and gas platforms scattered along the … Continue reading Retired Oil Rigs Off California Coast Could Be Reborn As Artificial Reefs →

Coltrane recorded the album in New Jersey, at the admiring behest of a Québécois filmmaker named Gilles Groulx, who used it to score his docufictional film Le chat dans le sac.

One crew member was found dead, and 31 others are missing as of Monday. Rescue efforts are hampered by bad weather. The environmental impact of the crash was not immediately clear.

A high surf warning for parts of Northern California said waves would range from 28 to 33 feet and up to 40 feet at some locations, the National Weather Service said.

Before Hurricane Katrina hit, local, state and federal officials held conference calls to coordinate their responses. In tapes of the meetings obtained by NPR, officials show growing frustrations.

Converting decommissioned oil and gas platforms off the California coast into artificial reefs could serve as a model for decommissioning some of the 7,500 other offshore platforms operating around the world.

Bills fail during legislative session that could have eased pressure on Oregon's mental health care systems.