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| May 06, 2013 -- The United States Department of Labor today announced that Hutco, Inc., an industrial services employment agency, has agreed to pay $1,916,850 in overtime back wages to employees assigned to work in sites throughout Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. More |
| February 06, 2013 -- The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council will hold a series of public engagement sessions in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida throughout the month of February. More |
| August 31, 2012 -- The Salvation Army today is continuing disaster relief efforts in states affected by Hurricane Isaac by providing meals and volunteer service. More |
| August 26, 2012 -- The United States Coast Guard has urged the maritime community to monitor Tropical Storm Isaac’s progress and take early action to protect themselves and their property. More |
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| July 28, 2012 -- The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will meet August 20 - 23 at the Astor Crowne Plaza in New Orleans, Louisiana. More |
| July 17, 2012 -- The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will convene its Reef Fish Advisory Panel August 6 and 7 at its office in Tampa, Florida. More |
| June 29, 2012 -- The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council recently met to consider various issues. More |
| June 29, 2012 -- The Secretary of Commerce has named five appointments to the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council. More |
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| June 28, 2012 -- The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council has issued a reminder that the recreational harvest of gag opens in the Gulf of Mexico's federal waters on July 1. More |
| May 30, 2012 -- The United States Geological Survey has released a report finding that 70 percent of the Gulf of Mexico shoreline is vulnerable to erosion during weaker Category 1 hurricanes. More |
 | May 07, 2012 -- Dr. William Merrell of Texas A&M University at Galveston, who weathered Hurricane Ike in the 1870 Merchants Mutual Insurance Building in the Strand Historic District where he conceived the Ike Dike, visited with Guidry News Service about storm surge protection. More |
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| April 18, 2012 -- The Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustee Council today announced that $60 million in early restoration projects will soon begin along the Gulf Coast in efforts to mitigate damages from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. More |
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| April 16, 2012 -- Lakewood Yacht Club will host an offshore race from Galveston to Gulfport, Mississippi from May 25 to May 31. More |
| April 05, 2012 -- Former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour today spoke at a gathering of harbor pilots from states along the Gulf of Mexico, calling for increased investment in waterways infrastructure and a national strategic policy to prepare ports for increased cargo and container volume anticipated following the expansion of the Panama Canal. More |
| February 12, 2012 -- The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will hold a meeting of its Law Enforcement Advisory Panel in Gulfport, Mississippi on Tuesday in conjunction with the Law Enforcement Committee of the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission. More |
| January 09, 2012 -- The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety today released a new report which provides an analysis of residential building codes in the 18 hurricane-prone coastal states along the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Coast. More |
| December 14, 2011 -- The Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustees today released the Deepwater Horizon Draft Phase I Early Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment, the first in a series of plans for the restoration of the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, for public comment. More |
| December 05, 2011 -- The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force today released its final strategy for long term ecosystem restoration for the Gulf Coast, following extensive feedback from citizens throughout the region. More |  |
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| September 29, 2011 -- America's WETLAND Foundation today announced recommendations included in the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force, which is to be released next week, for restoration of the Gulf Coast. More |
| September 14, 2011 -- The Deepwater Horizon Joint Investigation Team today released its final investigative report on the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig explosion and resulting oil spill that occurred on April 20, 2010. More |
| June 14, 2011 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today reported that the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone" is predicted to be larger than average this year due to extreme flooding of the Mississippi River. More |
| May 27, 2011 -- Colonel Alvin J. Bedgood has been named commander of the Civil Air Patrol's Southeast Region. More |
| April 22, 2011 -- The Deepwater Horizon Joint Investigation Team today released a preliminary report related to issues under the jurisdiction of the United States Coast Guard concerning the rig explosion and oil spill. More |
| April 21, 2011 -- The Natural Resource Trustees for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill today announced that BP has agreed to provide $1 billion toward early restoration projects in the Gulf of Mexico to address damages to natural resources caused by the spill. More |
| February 02, 2011 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today re-opened more than 4,000 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico to Royal Red shrimping after it was closed in November due to concerns of oil contamination from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. More |
| January 11, 2011 -- Update: The United States Coast Guard today launched an search aircraft and crew from a station in Clearwater, Florida as part of search efforts to find a man who reportedly went missing on Saturday while sailing between Galveston and Ocean Springs, Mississippi. More |
| November 24, 2010 -- The National Oeanic and Atmospheric Administration has closed 4,213 square miles of Gulf of Mexico federal waters off Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama to royal red shrimping due to tar balls in the net of a commercial shrimper.
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| November 23, 2010 -- The Federal Interagency Solutions Group, which was established through a request by the United States Coast Guard, today released a report revising numbers concerning the estimated "short-term fate" of oil discharged during the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. More |
| October 28, 2010 -- The Unified Area Command has provided an operations update on its continuing response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. More |
| October 01, 2010 -- The Unified Area Command has issued its Weekly Update on the response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. More |