By ROGER PETTERSON Associated Press Writer NEW YORK Nature's fury made life miserable Wednesday from one end of the nation to the other, with people forced out of their homes by wildfires near both coasts...

Gunmen seized four American workers in Nigeria's southern oil region, and an Italian oil company said Wednesday that daily crude production had been cut by nearly 100,000 barrels a day by the worst bombing...

Shell Oil Products has paid nearly $2.9 million in penalties and restricted production at its Northern California refinery following a March equipment failure that sent 925 tons of excess carbon monoxide...

NORTH COUNTY -- Local gasoline prices jumped 4.1 cents a gallon last week, to an average of 3.452 for a gallon of regular unleaded gas on Wednesday, according to a new survey by the Utility Consumers'...

Now you can save $1,000 per year, reduce stress and improve your health. How? Never face rush hour alone. Increasingly people are using one or more approaches to avoiding lost hours in gridlock: participating...