FARGO - March 7-13 is National Ground Water Awareness Week, which is a good time for homeowners to check their well cap to make sure it is protecting the water supply from contamination, says Roxanne ...

Sometimes what's underground is as important as what's in your filing cabinet. Keeping good documentation of your well may come in handy on more than one occasion. (Photo by Donna Kallner) The EPA ...

BP placed a new, tightfitting containment cap over its renegade well in the Gulf of Mexico late Monday, a move that may give it the ability to shut off the flow of oil completely, if tests show the ...

After a government review concluded that pressure tests of a new containment cap would not make the Gulf oil spill worse, BP on Wednesday started the process to begin testing — raising hopes once ...

Three oil and gas seeps on the seafloor near BP's damaged oil well are not cause for serious alarm, according to retired Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man on the federal response to the Gulf ...

NEW ORLEANS "No one associated with this whole activity ... wants to see any more oil flow into the /*Gulf of Mexico*/," said Doug Suttles, /*BP*/'s chief operating officer. "Right now we don't have a ...