A broken piston may be to blame for the locomotive fire that set off a chain of events leading to the rail disaster in Lac-Mégantic, Que., an investigation by the railroad company suggests.

A CSX Corp train hauling North Dakota crude derailed in West Virginia on Monday, setting a number of cars ablaze, destroying a house and forcing the evacuation of two towns in the second significant ...

Around 20,000 seafarers on hundreds of vessels are stuck in the Persian Gulf, unable to cross the Strait of Hormuz that ...

This article originally published at Texas jury awards $1.6B to families of victims in deadly plant explosion.

Environmental journalists are pairing satellite imagery and machine learning to expose illegal mining across the Amazon.

Carl Camilleri is one of a dwindling number of owners of LPG-fuelled cars. As petrol and diesel prices go through the roof, they are sparking a dose of Australian car industry nostalgia ...

A truck's fuel tank exploded early Thursday in a neighborhood south of downtown Los Angeles, sending a fireball into the air ...

Aboard an oil tanker between the Gulf of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz, Iraqi Captain Rahman Al-Jubouri continues to work in ...

Two house explosions in one neighborhood has spurred KSAT to revisit — and map out — its most recent coverage of reported ...

Reports on social media described what sounded like an explosion at the facility west of Ferndale about 10:25 a.m.

Pam Goodman and Beth Kinser visited friends in Groves a couple of weeks ago.During their stay, they would get up early and ...

Eight children ranging in age from about 8 months to 14 or 15 years old were killed in Shreveport after police said a man ...