Hurricane News

Houston-based Reliant Energy, citing credit market turmoil and the impact of Hurricane Ike, said today it is in search of a buyer.

Although not his top priority right now, mainly because hurricane recovery is consuming much of his attention, Rep.

Part of the plastic bag was barely visible in the sand and other debris on the Corpus Christi beach.

Four villagers were killed and another two injured when lightning struck a shop in Myanmar's administrative capital Naypyidaw, state media reported Sunday.

BOLIVAR PENINSULA, Texas : Jerrith Baird last spoke to his grandmother by telephone the night Hurricane Ike swept away most of the houses on this narrow spit of land.

Hurricane Ike's winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage only now is becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico and the marshes, bayous and bays of Louisiana and Texas, according to an analysis of federal data by The Associated Press.

In the days before and after the deadly storm, companies and residents reported at least 448 releases of oil, gasoline and dozens of other substances into the air and water and onto the ground in Louisiana and Texas. The hardest hit places were industrial centers near Houston and Port Arthur, Texas, as well as oil production facilities off Louisiana's coast, according to the AP's analysis.

BATON ROUGE -- Two hurricanes brought saltwater surge and flooding rain, leaving Louisiana rice farmers in both the north and south of the state struggling to salvage a profitable harvest.

First lady Laura Bush served dinner and offered comfort Friday to people still out of their homes three weeks after Hurricane Ike slammed into the Texas coast.

A Texas sheriff's official says the national death toll from Hurricane Ike has hit 70 after two bodies were found near where the storm came ashore.

A search team made the discovery Saturday on an island off the devastated resort area of Bolivar Peninsula.

The bodies were taken to the Galveston County medical examiner's office. Sheriff's Maj. Ray Tuttoilmondo (too-leh-MAHN'-doe) says he has no other information about the victims.

Ike forced more than a million people to flee the Texas coast before it hit Sept. 13. It caused flooding and deaths as far away as Pennsylvania.

The Associated Press 21 comments FEMA reportedly delayed handling complaints of formaldehyde levels in trailers.

The final hours brought the awful realization to victims of Hurricane Ike that they had waited too long.

Some Christmas ornaments that were washed away by Hurricane Ike turned up hundreds of miles away -- on a beach in Corpus Christi.

Oct 3, 2008 7:42 am US/Central About 1,200 immigrants in the Houston area whose naturalization ceremonies were delayed by Hurricane Ike will take their citizenship oaths Saturday, just in time to register to ...

Higos, the 17th tropical storm of the year, landed in China's southernmost Hainan Province Friday evening, local observatory said.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Marie has formed far off Mexico's Pacific coast.

One of North America's renowned bird migration and bird watching areas is strangely silent.

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Auto executives agree: their industry is headed into a giant storm. The clouds of global economic turmoil cast a pall over the opening of the Paris Motor Show on Thursday _ although a staged display of thunder ...

The world's longest undeveloped barrier island looks as if people have been living -- and dumping -- on it for decades.

Thu Oct 2, 2008 9:23am EDT - A "Now Hiring" sign is displayed in the window of a shop in Westminster, Colorado August 14, 2008 .