Spill-response crews planned to start digging up a blueberry farm near Everett on Tuesday to find the cause of a jet-fuel ...

— -- WASHINGTON—The Justice Department filed its first criminal charges related to the BP oil spill Tuesday, accusing a former company engineer of destroying records requested by prosecutors ...

Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling into deeper and deeper waters, where the payoffs can be ...

Last night a judicial panel ruled that litigation stemming from the BP oil disaster will be tried in a New Orleans federal court, a move the oil giant lobbied heavily against for weeks. Plaintiffs' ...

BP took some of the blame for the Gulf oil disaster in an internal report issued Wednesday, acknowledging among other things that it misinterpreted a key pressure test of the well. But in a possible ...