British explorer Captain James Cook made the European discovery of Prince William Sound in 1778. Today, the 25,090-square-mile (65,000-square-kilometer) passage southeast of Anchorage, Alaska, is the focal point of an ongoing political and...

Prince William Sound is a sound of the Gulf of Alaska on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located on the east side of the Kenai Peninsula. Its largest port is Valdez, at the southern terminus of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Other...

Are there two Prince William Sounds on this planet? It would seem so, after reading Hank Burchard's recent review of the "Profile of an Oil Spill" exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History. I cannot recall ever reading anything so uninformed and...

Carrying On In Prince William Sound Turn the page. A new chapter in the saga of Prince William Sound began when the Exxon Valdez wrecked on Bligh Reef March 24, 1989. Like the earthquake 25 years earlier, the Good Friday catastrophe stands...

Clean-up crews on Monday started mopping up 3,500 gallons of diesel fuel that spilled in wildlife-rich Prince William Sound when a fishing vessel grounded there, state environmental officials said.Fuel from the Nordic Viking, which grounded Saturday night, had reached an island used as a resting...

Operators of the trans-Alaska pipeline hope a scraping device will push out a piece of metal 20 inches in diameter that's been missing in the pipeline since December.A pipeline cleaning device known as a scraper or paraffin pig broke apart inside the pipeline in December...