AP - The nation's oceans chief on Thursday detailed reforms on the ways fishermen are policed, including a proposal to force her agency to better justify penalties against them.
AP - After a brief stint of fairly quiet weather activity over most of the West, a new patch of active weather was expected to move into the region Thursday.
Reuters - The family of two victims of Chile's massive quake accused the government of manslaughter in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, saying officials failed to warn them of a deadly tsunami set off by last month's tremor.
AP - The earthquake and tsunami that struck Chile last month killed 700 people and caused damages of nearly $30 billion, according to the government. And the ground hasn't stopped shaking.
Reuters - A huge snowpack from a harsh winter will cause extensive flooding this spring in the upper Midwest and in the major corn-growing state of Iowa, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration said on Tuesday.
Reuters - The Red River rose three feet on Tuesday, getting closer to causing major flooding at Fargo, North Dakota for the second straight spring in the key U.S. wheat-growing state.
Reuters - Rains and melting snow are expected this weekend to trigger more flooding in parts of Midwest, mainly in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri, adding to concerns over possible delays in spring seedings.
AP - Cyclone Tomas battered island groups off Fiji's northern coast Monday, causing flooding, pounding seas and one death, but officials said the storm likely would only sideswipe the main islands of the South Pacific nation.
Reuters - A strong quake of 6.4 magnitude struck in waters off Indonesia on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
AFP - A powerful quake with a magnitude of 7.0 hit off the eastern Indonesian island of Maluku on Sunday, seismologists said, but no tsunami warning was issued.
AP - Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent camps that hundreds of thousands have called home since Haiti's devastating earthquake — and with torrential rains expected any day, authorities are not even close to providing the shelters they promised.
AP - Chile may need to spend twice as much as Haiti to recover from its devastating quake and tsunami, but it doesn't have the same desperate need for international aid or generous loans.
AP - Climate change is here and scientists need to do a better job of explaining it to the public, the director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday.