Federal officials confirmed an Amtrak train was hurtling 50 mph over the speed limit when it careened off an overpass...
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The lead singer of the alternative rock band Modest Mouse is being sued in a Portland, Ore. court for nearly...
Wildfires in Oregon are burning an area roughly equivalent to half the state of Rhode Island, affecting air quality throughout...
Forget about selfies. In California, residents are using smartphones and drones to document the coastline’s changing face. Starting this month,...
An explosion at an ExxonMobil oil refinery in California last year could have been prevented if managers had taken into...
When Volkswagen opened its gleaming pollution testing center near the California coast, a top executive from the German automaker helped...
A sex abuse case claiming negligence against the Boy Scouts is getting underway in California and will include the use...
The Los Angeles school district will pay millions of dollars to settle claims and lawsuits filed by students and families...
A former computer specialist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is going to court over allegations that he was wrongfully terminated...
The warning was ominous, its predictions dire: Oceanographers issued a bulletin telling Hawaii and other Pacific islands that a killer...