WEST, Texas -- Eight years after a massive explosion leveled portions of a central Texas town, left 15 dead and injured hundreds, the investigation into who was responsible remains open. On April 17, ...

WEST, TEXAS — Tuesday marks five years since an intentionally-set fire caused an explosion at the West Fertilizer Company in the small town of West, TX, killing 15 people, injuring more than 260 and ...

Workers at a cooperative farm near Shanghai scatter fertilizer across fields of winter wheat. Image from the May issue of National Geographic magazine. My first reaction when I heard details of this ...

Investigators said weak state and federal regulations contributed to a deadly fertilizer explosion last year in Texas. The same regulations apply to fertilizer stored in Arkansas. About a year ago, 30 ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — An uncontrolled fire at a fertilizer plant in North Carolina continued to burn Wednesday, forcing firefighters and thousands of evacuated residents to remain at least a mile (1.6 ...

The children of West, Texas, who lost their homes and schools after a massive fertilizer explosion tore through their town, will start classes in two weeks in a cluster of temporary classrooms. The ...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Friday he's disgusted with a Sacramento Bee cartoon that depicts him boasting about business booming in his state and then shows an explosion, and says he wants an apology ...