A half mile of beach along North Carolina's Outer Banks is closed to swimming after the National Park Service detected a ...

EAST KINGSTON, N.H. — Officials have identified the cause of a mysterious sheen that appeared Monday on a pond that feeds ...

BUXTON, N.C. (WAVY) — While going to the beach in the Buxton area of Hatteras Island, you might notice an oily sheen paired with an odor of petroleum in the water, but why is that? National Park ...

A section of beach along North Carolina’s Outer Banks has been closed to swimming due to a petroleum leak believed to ...

Part of a beach at the Outer Banks is closing again because of ongoing problems from a former submarine monitoring site, ...

Cape Hatteras beach closed again due to petroleum odors; visitors are also advised not to swim or wade in waters near Old ...

An investigation is underway after sheen was found Monday on Powwow Pond and the Powwow River in South Hampton.

If the well is a drinking water well, contact Dare County DHHS at 252.475.5088 to schedule sampling.

A sheen can be bacterial — such as decaying plants — or petroleum in nature, according to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. The nature of the sheens remains unclear, the MPCA said.

Residents in Navy-owned housing at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam found the tap water had an oily sheen and smelled like fuel on Nov. 28. Families started buying bottled water while waiting for ...

Cleanup continues in Charlotte’s Little Sugar Creek, days after a citizen spotted an oil sheen while walking along its popular greenway, officials said Friday. About 20 to 30 gallons of ...