PORTLAND, Ore. — The Story spent five nights last week reporting on the groundwater crisis in eastern Oregon's Lower Umatilla Basin, where decades of commercial food production have contaminated the ...

For more than a decade, some residents of the tiny Richmond, Rhode Island, neighborhood of Canob Park drank and bathed using tap water that had been tainted by gasoline that leaked from storage tanks ...

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has revised the Port of Morrow’s groundwater contamination fine to $2.1 million after finding additional wastewater violations. On Friday, the agency ...

A view of the city of San Luis Obispo from Terrace Hill. Joe Johnston [email protected] The city of San Luis Obispo wants to pump groundwater again — but first it must clean up decades-old ...

Legislators have just passed a groundwater protection bill that many nonprofit groups working on groundwater contamination said was too watered down to make a real difference. Gov. Tina Kotek backed ...

Editor’s Note: This is the third of a five-part series called “KTAR Water Watch,” which will explore the present and future of the water supply across Arizona and metro Phoenix. PHOENIX — You can’t ...

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Some of the hazy, smoky air that drifted across New Jersey last week because of the western wildfires has returned Tuesday morning, along with ground-level pollution from the hot weather — prompting ...

Maricopa County has issued no-burn day advisories through Dec. 17 as hazy skies and dangerous air pollution settle over the ...