The people impacted by Australia's worst industrial disaster are at the centre of West Gate by Dennis McIntosh, one of seven ...

Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

The deadly project killed more than 750 workers, the company scrambling to bury the dead before anyone knew they were gone.

On Christmas Eve 1953, a passenger train bound for Auckland crossed the Whangaehu River in darkness — unaware that the bridge ...

A University of Houston scientist is helping reveal the world's weakest bridges—and how to fix them before it's too late. In ...

A settlement in one victim's case could come as soon as next month — more than a year and a half after the cargo ship Dali ...