There's been a lot of talk recently about how oil drilling has made the Texas and Louisiana coast look dirty. ...more

November 10, 2009

With complaints of skyrocketing gas prices burying the state's price gouging hotline, Attorney General Bill McCollum today issued subpoenas to four fuel companies seeking records to justify dramatic increases over the last four days. ...more

September 14, 2008

The King Air climbed into the sky over the cypress and black gum trees in the Pearl River delta at the Mississippi-Louisiana border, and left behind a swampland thrashed and washed over by Hurricane Gustav's storm surge. ...more

September 7, 2008

An "extremely dangerous" Hurricane Ike bulked up to Category 4 strength Saturday and the storm lurked "near or over" the British territory of Turks and Caicos islands. ...more

September 7, 2008

Hurricane Ike hurtled towards the Turks and Caicos and the southern Bahamas on Saturday as a Category 2 storm with winds sustained at 110 mph. ...more

September 6, 2008

Lyndon Guidry wasn't taking any chances this time around, not after what Hurricane Katrina did to his house in New Orleans three years ago. ...more

August 31, 2008

Tropical Storm Edouard spent this afternoon getting better organized but gained little strength through the day as tropical storm winds began brushing the Louisiana coast. ...more

August 4, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY Opinions vary among some West Pasco leaders on the topic of possible oil and natural gas drilling off the Florida coast. ...more

June 19, 2008

If Tampa Bay area residents need further reminding that even the smallest glob of disturbed weather in the Gulf of Mexico bears watching during hurricane season, Hurricane Humberto, which blindsided the Texas-Louisiana coast early Thursday, did the trick. ...more

September 17, 2007

Call it the instant hurricane. Humberto, which grew faster than any storm on record from tropical depression to full-scale hurricane landfall, surprised the Texas-Louisiana coast early Thursday with 85-mph winds and heavy rain that knocked out power to more than 100,000 and left at least one person dead. ...more

September 14, 2007