The Latest Breaking News from Gulf

Floridians pray that when Idalia hits the Gulf Coast it won’t join the long list of destructive Atlantic Ocean storms whose names started with “I.”

Forecasters expected Hurricane Idalia to rapidly intensify into a major hurricane as it headed over exceptionally warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico, on track for landfall in Florida on Wednesday, Aug. 30. Hurricane warnings were posted along a wide stretch of Florida’s Gulf coast, from near Sarasota to the…

The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Idalia is intensifying and expected to become a major hurricane before it reaches Florida's Gulf coast

Much of Florida is under a state of emergency as a tropical storm is possibly forming in the Gulf of Mexico

Oil companies are challenging a Biden administration move to protect an endangered species of whale by scaling back a planned September auction of Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases

Temperatures above 100F stretched south to states on the Gulf coast amid warnings of ‘brutal humidity levels’

The differences between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have become apparent in several areas of regional politics and have now touched domestic areas as well

Saudi border guards reportedly "fired like rain" on Ethiopian migrants trying to cross through Yemen into the Gulf kingdom, killing hundreds since last year, according to an NGO report.

Several hundred trucks bound for the Gulf states have been trapped at the border between Syria and Jordan since early August because of a new Saudi law affecting cargo vehicles apparently aimed at stemming the flow of the drug Captagon.