Houston Still Without Power As Texas Struggles In Ike Recovery
GALVESTON, Texas — Residents trying to get back to this hurricane-ravaged city Wednesday spent hours fuming in gridlocked traffic, only to be tu...
GALVESTON, Texas — Residents trying to get back to this hurricane-ravaged city Wednesday spent hours fuming in gridlocked traffic, only to be tu...
AP | JUAN A. LOZANO | Posted 10.17.2008 | Green
GALVESTON, Texas — About 250 people who withstood Hurricane Ike on a coastal sliver of land will be forced off it so crews can begin the recover...
abcnews.com | Emily Friedman | Posted 10.17.2008 | Living
When Galveston, Texas, resident Martin Carroll returned home to assess the damage left by Hurricane Ike, what he discovered was devastating. "It don'...
ABC News | JIM BUNN and ASHLEY PHILLIPS | Posted 10.16.2008 | Green
As frustrations mount over delays in providing basic supplies to survivors of Hurricane Ike, the first glimpses of previously inaccessible areas revea...
Washington Times | David M. Dickson | Posted 10.16.2008 | Business
John Hofmeister, the former president of Shell Oil Co. and one of the most influential voices in the oil industry, called for short-term gasoline rati...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.16.2008 | Business
Relief to small businesses and homeowners recovering from this season's round of hurricanes will be dramatically hampered by a series of severe Bush A...
AP | KANTELE FRANKO | Posted 10.16.2008 | Green
CINCINNATI — Midwest residents cleared debris from their yards Monday as crews worked to restore electricity to millions of customers left witho...
Nicholas G. Arons | Posted 10.16.2008 | Green
With cultures and traditions as old as any on the planet, island nations have survived colonization, world wars and nuclear testing. But they will not survive climate change.
AP | JOHN PORRETTO and MARK WILLIAMS | Posted 10.15.2008 | Green
HOUSTON — Pump prices jumped above $5 per gallon in some parts of the country Sunday as Hurricane Ike, which caused less destruction than feared...
AP | JOHN PORRETTO and MARK WILLIAMS | Posted 10.15.2008 | Business
HOUSTON — Pump prices jumped above $5 per gallon in some parts of the country Sunday as Hurricane Ike, which caused less destruction than feared...
AP | CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | Posted 10.15.2008 | Home
GALVESTON, Texas — The death toll from Hurricane Ike rose to 25 across nine states Sunday, as rescuers said they had saved nearly 2,000 people f...
AP | JOHN PORRETTO and MARK WILLIAMS | Posted 10.14.2008 | Business
HOUSTON — From Florida to Tennessee, and all the way up to Connecticut, people far from Hurricane Ike's destruction nonetheless felt one of its ...
AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama asked his supporters Saturday to help with recovery from Hurricane Ike and can...
Chicago Tribune | Paul Sullivan | Posted 10.14.2008 | Chicago
For manager Lou Piniella and the eight Cubs who were in New York for the All-Star Game in July, this weekend's Hurricane Ike hiatus could serve as the...
AP | CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and PAULINE ARRILLAGA | Posted 10.14.2008 | Home
HOUSTON — Rescuers in boats, helicopters and high-water trucks fanned out along the flood-stricken Texas coast Saturday in a monumental effort t...
Richard Walden | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics
It's hard to pay attention unless you are living at ground zero.
AP | JUAN A. LOZANO and PAULINE ARRILLAGA | Posted 10.13.2008 | Green
HOUSTON — A monster-sized Hurricane Ike bore down on the Texas coast late Friday, threatening to rattle the sparkling skyscrapers of America's f...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.13.2008 | Home
"The tide is higher then it was for Hurricane Rita and when the wind blows from the south more water will follow. One hundred thousand people in Terrebonne Parish could flood. It looks like Niagra Falls. Please leave."
AP | JUAN A. LOZANO and PAULINE ARRILLAGA | Posted 10.13.2008 | Green
HOUSTON — A monster-sized Hurricane Ike bore down on the Texas coast late Friday, threatening to rattle the sparkling skyscrapers of America's f...
Sheri Fink | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics
Cross-posted with ProPublica As Hurricane Gustav approached the southern Louisiana coastline late last month, an estimated 10,000 hospital, nursing h...
AP | CHRIS DUNCAN | Posted 10.12.2008 | Chicago
HOUSTON — The first two games of this weekend's series between the Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros have been postponed because of the potential ...
AP | MICHAEL GRACZYK | Posted 10.12.2008 | Green
HOUSTON — Cars and trucks streamed inland and chemical companies buttoned up their plants Thursday as a gigantic Hurricane Ike took aim at the h...
Joe Garcia | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics
The greatest impediment to the wellbeing of the Cuban people is the Cuban government itself. But this fact does not give us license to throw our hands in the air and not offer our help.
AP | MICHAEL GRACZYK | Posted 10.12.2008 | Green
HOUSTON — Cars and trucks streamed inland and chemical companies buttoned up their plants Thursday as a gigantic Hurricane Ike took aim at the h...
AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 10.12.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Gasoline prices jumped to unprecedented levels in the wholesale markets Thursday as Hurricane Ike tore across the Gulf of Mexico, thr...
AP | JON GAMBRELL | Posted 10.18.2008 | Green