PORTLAND, Ore. — The Story spent five nights last week reporting on the groundwater crisis in eastern Oregon's Lower Umatilla Basin, where decades of commercial food production have contaminated the ...

A class action lawsuit filed by a group of Oregonians is accusing a local utility company and a creamery of "dangerous" ...

The San Luis Valley Groundwater Basin stretches from San Luis Obispo to Edna Valley — but a toxic chemical swirling in the water prevents the city from using the resource for drinking water. That will ...

Both Tillamook and PGE have operations at the Port of Morrow, one source that the state of Oregon has cited for nitrate ...

For more than a decade, some residents of the tiny Richmond, Rhode Island, neighborhood of Canob Park drank and bathed using tap water that had been tainted by gasoline that leaked from storage tanks ...

More than a decade ago, UC Davis released a groundbreaking report about the growing human health threat from groundwater contamination. It revealed that hundreds of thousands of Californians rely on ...

Texas agencies reported 252 new cases of groundwater contamination during 2023 in the Texas Groundwater Protection Committee annual report. The latest report compiles 2,870 open cases of groundwater ...

New government testing shows that uranium levels are rising in Delhi's groundwater, with 1315% of samples showing elevated ...

Several south-central Kansas counties are seeing a dramatic increase in groundwater contamination. The region’s nitrate pollution comes primarily from agriculture. PRATT – Nitrate pollution has forced ...

Delhi's 2025 groundwater report flags higher uranium, lead, nitrate and salinity in some pockets. Here's what it means for ...