SAN DIEGO (KABC) -- One of the sea lions rescued from the oil spill at Refugio State Beach died Saturday after being sent to SeaWorld for treatment. The male sea lion arrived Thursday in ...

The Trump administration is proposing new oil drilling off the California and Florida coasts for the first time in decades.

One year ago, a corroded pipe operated by Plains All-American burst. It released a river of crude into a creek that empties into the ocean at Refugio State Beach, a pristine coastline and popular ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KABC) -- Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County is set to reopen July 17 around noon after being shut down for nearly two months due to a devastating oil spill.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A commercial fisherman sued the owner of the oil pipeline that spilled thousands of gallons of crude on the Santa Barbara coast, alleging the environmental disaster would cause ...

New leasing and drilling “inevitably” means new oil spills, which has devastated Santa Barbara in the past, said Maggie Hall, ...

The maximum amount of crude oil that could have spilled into the ocean off the coast of Huntington Beach in Orange County so far is 126,000 gallons. That’s the estimate by local officials. A huge ...

Birds were found covered in oil on the Refugio beach. — -- Two days after a ruptured pipeline leaked an estimated 21,000 gallons of oil off the California shore, wildlife -- including ...