A lawyer for BP last week urged a judge to dismiss much of the state's lawsuit against the company seeking $1 billion or more in damages for the 2006 pipeline spills in the Prudhoe Bay oil field.

Five years and $28 billion later, the debate goes on: Has BP paid enough? Dire economic predictions followed the 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. Pessimists said the vast ...

Millions of dollars may be headed to Texas from BP to help make amends for the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But a state agency has sparked a debate over a proposal to charge fees when ...

A plan to spend most of a $1 billion oil spill settlement with BP on state debt repayments, Medicaid and roads in Baldwin and Mobile counties is on its way to Gov. Robert Bentley. The Senate voted ...

BP bill goes to conference after emotional Senate debate. ... The legislation – aimed at using the state’s share of BP’s settlement over the 2010 Gulf oil spill to pay state debt, ...