A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On March 24, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and began leaking ...

Plus, the race to prevent an oil spill off Yemen. By Amelia Nierenberg and Justin Porter The tanker spilled millions of gallons of oil when it ran aground, causing one of the nation’s worst ...

The oil giant Exxon Mobil has reached a settlement to pay out damages for its 1989 oil spill in Alaska. Exxon says it will pay out $380 million in damages and contest the remaining $70 million in ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it would hear Exxon Mobil Corp's appeal seeking to overturn the $2.5 billion in punitive damages for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off ...

The Exxon Valdez closed another chapter in its now notorious history yesterday morning when it sailed slowly under its own power through San Diego Bay and later eased alongside a National Steel & ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, there was the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska. The tanker struck a reef on March 24, 1989, and unleashed ...

Twenty-five years ago, on March 24, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground off the coast of Alaska, eventually spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil into the pristine waters of Prince ...