On February 1, 2003, the world lost Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla and six other crew members aboard the Space ...

Insurance companies will have to cover tens of billions of dollars in claims, though putting an exact figure on those ...

Midair collisions throughout aviation history have brought some of the worst tragedies in the sky. But they've also left important lessons.

It’s important to remember that disasters worthy of our attention as Americans are not only natural disasters like wildfires, but those that were man-made, like the Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010 ...

The president-elect's niece said the country is "all too familiar with the sort of chaos he brings to already fraught situations." ...

Responders are working to recover the victims of Wednesday night's midair collision over Washington, D.C. It could be the deadliest crash to occur in U.S. airspace in at least 15 years.

To date, the Camp Fire which struck Northern California's Butte County in November 2018 is the costliest in US history, by insured losses.The insurance firm Aon estimated its losses at just under ...

I think it will be in terms of just the costs associated with it, in terms of the scale and scope,” the California governor said.

The destruction caused by the Los Angeles-area wildfires, possibly the worst ever in California, is almost certain to rank as one of the most costly natural disasters in U.S. history, with the ...

Wildfires still raging across Los Angeles County are projected to be among the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history. Early estimates of damage and economic losses total between $250 billion ...

In Jenkins Twp. at 10:15 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 19, the event which birthed Anthracite Mining History Month, the Knox Mine Disaster Historical Markers Commemoration, will be held at the marker site in ...