Most of Fort Lauderdale’s beach was shut down to swimmers during a busy beach day Saturday due to oil washing ashore.

The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating after tar balls were seen washed up on southeast Florida beaches. The substances were reported in the Palm Beach, Pompano Beach and Deerfield Beach areas on ...

It was a beautiful day on Fort Lauderdale Beach, until a strange substance cut it short.Swimmers were forced out of<a ...

Estimated to be between 60,000 and 67,000 years old, this small fire pit appears to have been used for creating birch tar. This sticky substance acted as glue, binding sharp stone tools to wooden ...

At 7:05 p.m. Saturday, the Coast Guard’s Southeast District posted to social media that “Coast Guard air and surface crews completed searches from Palm beach to Port Everglades for the source of the ...

South Floridians enjoying a pleasant Saturday at the beach found themselves stepping in dark, greasy balls of oil, possibly ...

The Miami Sector Coast Guard confirmed there are tar balls at several South Florida Beaches. So far, the Coast Guard has confirmed sightings at Ft. Lauderdale Beach, Pompano, and Deerfield Beach. The ...

A sticky, black substance that washed ashore Saturday prompted officials to close a stretch of Fort Lauderdale Beach as crews ...

2-Year U.S. Treasury Note Continuous Contract $102.730-0.008-0.01% 5-Year U.S. Treasury Note Continuous Contract $106.453-0.023-0.02% 10-Year U.S. Treasury Note Continuous Contract $109.203-0.016 ...

Crude oil prices remained stable today after dipping on Tuesday following the release of the Energy Information Administration’s latest Short-Term Energy Outlook. In the outlook, the EIA ...

The industry is pumping ever more oil and natural gas, but it is doing so with only about three-quarters as many workers as it employed a decade ago. By Rebecca F. Elliott Rebecca F. Elliott spoke ...