A small town in northwest Oregon is getting a $1 million grant to restore running water after the town’s water treatment facility burned during last year’s Labor Day fires.

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — About 250,000 gallons of partially treated effluent was sent into Puget Sound from Bainbridge Island’s wastewater treatment plant after heavy rainfall temporarily...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The head of West Virginia's Department of Environmental Protection is leaving state government in January, the governor announced.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — About 750 gallons (2,800 liters) of diesel and water have been cleaned up after an Alaska oil spill that state Department of Environmental Conservation officials said...

SKOWHEGAN, Maine (AP) — Residents of Skowhegan, Maine, are still under a do-not-drink order from the local water district that stretched into a fifth day on Tuesday.

SKOWHEGAN, Maine (AP) — Authorities in Maine told 6,000 residents not to drink water from their faucets following a report of a strange odor and taste.

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — A pipeline was installed at the Water Treatment Plant in the Washington state city of Anacortes, which is investing $13 million into upgrades at the facility to provide...

DZILTH-NA-O-DITH-HLE, N.M. (AP) — Construction is complete on a water treatment plant that will help provide the Navajo Nation and surrounding areas with a clean and reliable source of drinking...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz says the $1.9 billion public works bill he signed into law will improve Minnesota’s infrastructure and ensure that construction crews keep busy as the economy...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A state panel that oversees water quality and permitting issues across New Mexico has approved lower interest rates for a program that helps finance water projects....

LAKE JACKSON, Texas (AP) — Texas officials on Saturday lifted a warning for all but one Houston-area community to stop using tap water because it might be tainted with a deadly brain-eating...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's Department of Environmental Quality has issued a permit for a water treatment system at the Chemours Fayetteville Works site to remove so-called forever...

MCCOOK, Neb. (AP) — Two McCook city employees have been found dead inside a wastewater treatment plant, police in the southwestern Nebraska city said.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Approximately 4 million gallons of partially treated wastewater has been discharged into Casco Bay, according to the Portland Water District.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Work on a road-widening project is expected to start soon on Route 106 in Loudon and Canterbury, New Hampshire.

The work, scheduled to start Monday, is the second phase...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The city of Bemidji has a problem: firefighter training that used so-called “forever chemicals” has left the city’s water supply so contaminated that it needs a new water...

DOS PALOS, Calif. (AP) — Residents of a town in central California won't have water for several days after the town's water treatment plant became clogged with algae, officials said.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A man suspected of setting a half-dozen spot fires in San Jose on Thursday was detained as firefighters worked to corral a blaze that briefly threatened homes, authorities...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has recommended 12 development projects located on or nearby abandoned mine lands to get over $27 million in federal funds.

PEARL, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency says more counties have been approved for federal disaster assistance following damage by April storms.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Site work has started on a project meant to purify water in the Florida Everglades, state officials announced Thursday.

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have charged four people in the death of a young woman who died in an apparent exorcism ritual almost 4 1/2 years ago.

WELLINGTON, Fla. (AP) — A Florida construction worker called in a bomb threat to a water treatment facility to get a day off work, authorities said.

AUSTIN, Minn. (AP) — Four family members were killed in a fiery one-vehicle crash in southern Minnesota, authorities said.

The crash happened Thursday evening in Austin. Police Chief David...

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. (AP) — A do-not-drink advisory has been lifted in New Paltz after a damaged fuel line led to complaints about the taste and smell of the water, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Pebble Partnership has submitted a draft plan for reducing the open-pit mine project's impact on wetlands and salmon-bearing streams in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region....

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — Atlantic Richfield has scrapped a proposal to build a second water treatment plant to lower the level of acidic, metal-laden water that has collected in a former copper mining...

BEULAH, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama utility is undertaking a $5.5 million water project designed to stabilize and increase the water pressure for customers and firefighters.

DOVER, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire city's mayor-elect announced that a steel company has agreed to pay the full cost of building an estimated $15 million to $20 million water treatment plant to...

DOVER, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire city has not decided who will pay for an estimated $15 million to $20 million water treatment plant to clean up an aquifer, according to the...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York would not issue violations against certain water suppliers who notify the public that they have too-high levels of certain industrial and synthetic chemicals under...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A wastewater treatment plant in West Virginia is receiving more than $1.4 million to repair damage caused by severe flooding in 2017.

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) — Johnson City is taking action after discovering that its water treatment plant was dumping chlorinated water into Brush Creek and the Watauga River, killing fish,...

POWAY, Calif. (AP) — The Southern California city of Poway has lifted a week-long boil-water advisory after tests determined the water is safe to drink.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Wichita City Council has awarded a $500 million contract for the city's new water treatment plant to a group that includes two companies that spent thousands of dollars on...

POWAY, Calif. (AP) — The Southern California city of Poway has figured out the cause of discolored tap water that triggered a boil-water advisory.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The former operator of the water system in Garden Plain was sentenced to a year of federal probation for submitting a false report about the quality of the city’s drinking...

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A Maine waste facility accidentally dumped about 6,500 gallons of bleach into the local sewage system, which is a violation of its environmental permits.

LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — Residents of Liberty, Missouri, are being urged to conserve water because of a mechanical problem at the city’s water treatment plant.

PHOENIX (AP) — A Phoenix suburb plans to start using treated surface water for part of its supply.

Goodyear officials have scheduled a Nov. 1 groundbreaking for a new facility for treating 8...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett says he will not file charges against Wichita Mayor Jeff Longwell over gifts the mayor received from companies involved in...

MCKEESPORT, Pa. (AP) — More than 16,000 customers in four western Pennsylvania communities are waiting to learn if a boil water advisory has been lifted.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita Mayor Jeff Longwell steered the city's nearly $524 million contract for a new water plant away from a nationally known design team and toward his political supporters...

BELLE CHASSE, La. (AP) — The federal government is giving one Louisiana parish a $4 million grant to help improve the water infrastructure.

In a news release, the Department of Commerce says...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska pet food maker has been fined $100,000 for exceeding the limit of wastewater it was permitted to discharge into a city water treatment plant.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Testing to see if city-issued filters are removing enough lead from Newark's water will last a few more weeks.

The state Department of Environmental Protection said...