WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up the issue of damages awarded in the long-running legal battle over the grounding of the tanker Exxon Valdez.

WASHINGTON, June 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court may hear an 18-year-old lawsuit regarding the Exxon Valdez spill of millions of gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- A humpback whale drowned in Alaska's Prince William Sound after becoming entangled in the net of a research vessel.

JUNEAU, Alaska, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. Coast Guard searched for the crew of a fishing boat found partially burned Monday in Alaska's Prince William Sound.

JUNEAU, Alaska, May 16 (UPI) -- Seventeen years after the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound, scientists say the oil spill might have been worse than thought. The researchers say they've found evidence suggesting remnants of the worst oil spill in U.S. history ext

SUITLAND, Md., July 29 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists said Thursday they made a rare sighting this month of endangered blue whales in Alaskan waters.