Josh Funk

Water is sprayed on a tank that overheated at an aerospace plant in Garden Grove, Calif., Friday, May 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

West Coast chemical emergencies raise questions about the safety of massive industrial tanks

May 27, 2026 at 9:50 p.m.

A large tank containing a corrosive chemical at a Longview, Washington, paper mill ruptured on Tuesday, killing two and possibly nine others. And late last week about 50,000 people were...

Southern California chemical tank at risk of exploding as 50,000 residents are ordered to evacuate

May 24, 2026 at 9:35 a.m.

Authorities braced for the possibility that a damaged chemical tank in Southern California could leak or explode as an evacuation order continued into the Memorial Day weekend for 50,000 residents...

A passenger looks at a closed off entrance to the Long Island Rail Road at Grand Central station, Saturday, May 16, 2026, in New York, on the first day of a strike after five unions representing about half the LIRR’s workforce walked off the job. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

With largest US commuter rail system shut down, federal labor officials urge unions to resume talks

May 17, 2026 at 7:52 p.m.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul implored unions representing workers for the Long Island Rail Road, North America’s largest commuter rail system, to resume bargaining Sunday, saying a long strike hurts...

A plane carrying patients evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship with suspected hantavirus infection, lands at the Bourget airport, north of Paris, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Passengers from virus-stricken cruise ship fly to home countries for monitoring

May 11, 2026 at 3:35 p.m.

A French woman and an American tested positive for the hantavirus, as nations around the world scrambled Monday to repatriate passengers from a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak...

FILE – A Norfolk Southern freight train rolls past the U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works, in Clairton, Pa., Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Union Pacific argues for its $85B acquisition of Norfolk Southern in new railroad merger application

April 30, 2026 at 10:51 a.m.

Union Pacific hopes regulators will be convinced this time that its $85 billion acquisition of Norfolk Southern that it detailed for the second time Thursday will be good for the...

FILE – Officials investigate the site, Monday, March 23, 2026, where an Air Canada jet came to rest after colliding with a Port Authority firetruck at LaGuardia Airport, shortly after landing Sunday night in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, file)

Firefighter heard ‘stop, stop’ before LaGuardia jet crash, but didn’t know who it was for, NTSB says

April 23, 2026 at 6:29 p.m.

The National Transportation Safety Board says a firefighter whose truck collided with an Air Canada jet last month on a runway at New York’s LaGuardia Airport heard an air traffic...

FILE – Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a bus crash, March 4, 2024, on West Virginia Route 16 in Calhoun County, W.Va. (WCHS TV via AP, File)

School buses should all have alcohol tests to avoid drunken driving, NTSB recommends

April 23, 2026 at 1:32 p.m.

After a school bus rolled on a West Virginia highway two years ago, forcing one boy to have his leg amputated and seriously injuring two other children aboard, police quickly...

Southwest Airlines grounds crew refuel an aircraft at Hollywood Burbank Airport in Burbank, Calif., Friday, April 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Two Southwest Airlines planes came dangerously close in Nashville and had to take evasive action

April 20, 2026 at 3:42 p.m.

Two Southwest Airlines planes had to take evasive action to avoid colliding Saturday in Nashville, Tennessee, after an air traffic controller directed one pilot to turn into the path of...

FILE – Salvage crews work on recovering wreckage near the site in the Potomac River of a mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Feb. 6, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Aviation safety bill based on deadly midair collision near Washington faces a House vote

April 14, 2026 at 8:07 a.m.

An aviation safety bill seeking to address lessons learned from last year’s midair collision of a jet with an Army helicopter near the nation’s capital is up for a vote...

A Spirit Airlines jet taxis past an Air Canada Express jet sitting on the side of a runway, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, where it had collided with a Port Authority fire truck Sunday night at LaGuardia Airport in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Seconds before LaGuardia crash, controller cleared the fire truck to cross the runway, NTSB says

March 24, 2026 at 7:32 p.m.

Federal investigators say a runway warning system didn’t trigger an alarm before an Air Canada jet and a fire truck collided at New York’s LaGuardia Airport.

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