A train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded Monday in central West Virginia, sending oil into the Kanawha River and forcing the shutdown of the Fayette County’s main water intake plant while ...

WOLF POINT, Mont. (AP) – It’s tough to miss the trains hauling crude oil out of the Northern Plains. They are growing more frequent by the day, mile-long processions of black tank cars that rumble ...

No deaths have been reported, but residents of Casselton, less than a mile away from the derailment, were urged to evacuate when the wind shifted, sending oily smoke in their direction. Here's a map ...

Nearly two years after a crude oil train derailed, exploded and killed 47 people in the Canadian town of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, in 2013, there are no uniform U.S. standards for oil train safety ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) U.S. transportation officials said Wednesday that details about volatile oil train shipments are not sensitive security information, after railroads have sought to keep the ...

On April 18, a wildflower photographer looking for blooming balsamroot on the Oregon slopes of the Columbia River Gorge happened to glance down and see dozens of black tankers barreling along the ...

Trains full of crude oil, like the one that exploded outside Quebec, started rolling through Washington last fall. There’s one 100-car train each day, and that rate is going to increase as the state’s ...

Top officials from the railroad and oil industries agreed Wednesday to consider voluntary new safety steps for oil trains carrying crude from the Bakken region of North Dakota in the wake of recent ...

The derailment of an oil train in rural northeastern Montana follows a string of accidents as shipments of crude by rail have increased dramatically in recent years, driven by a surge in domestic ...