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 ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is refusing to provide additional money to help rebuild the small Texas town where a deadly fertilizer plant explosion leveled numerous homes and a school and ...

In a news conference Monday, officials declared safe the neighborhood around the site of last week's deadly West, Texas, fertilizer plant blast, which was so powerful it registered as a small ...

Settlements reached this weekend halted the start of the first scheduled trial in civil litigation stemming from the April 17, 2013, explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, according to lead ...

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 ...

The City of West will be paid more than $10 million through settlements from a negligence lawsuit it filed over the deadly 2013 West Fertilizer Plant explosion. Specifically, West City Council ...

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 ...

The focus of lawsuits stemming from the April 17 explosion at the West fertilizer plant may change, after news that Adair Grain Inc., doing business as West Fertilizer Co., holds only a $1 million ...

Dear EarthTalk: The recent explosion at a West, Texas fertilizer plant that killed many people really alarmed me. Places like this must exist near many communities around the country. How do I know if ...