Major freight railroads will have to maintain two-person crews on most routes under a new federal rule that was finalized Tuesday in a milestone in organized labor’s long...
OMAHA, Neb. — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has reiterated his concerns about railroad safety and scolded the industry for not doing more to improve since last ...
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — President Joe Biden on Friday surveyed the federal cleanup in East Palestine, Ohio, more than a year after an explosive fire from a derailed train ...
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Daily life largely returned to normal for most of the nearly 5,000 residents of East Palestine, Ohio, months after a Norfolk Southern train deraile...
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will visit the eastern Ohio community that was devastated by a fiery train derailment in February 2023 that displaced thousands of reside...
Precautionary tests of the soil and water in Beaver and Lawrence counties are continuing to be conducted nine months after the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, a...
VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. — President Joe Biden joined United Auto Workers strikers on a picket line Tuesday as their work stoppage against major carmakers hit day 12, a ...
Norfolk Southern announced new details Monday about its plan to compensate East Palestine residents for lost home values since the fiery derailment disrupted life in the ...
OMAHA, Neb. — A Trump-era rule allowing railroads to haul highly flammable liquefied natural gas will now be formally put on hold to allow more time to study the safety c...
WASHINGTON — Congress responded to the fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio earlier this year with bipartisan alarm, holding a flurry of hearings about the potential fo...
OMAHA, Neb. — A minor coal train derailment in Virginia in early July prompted Norfolk Southern to rethink the way it responds to problems with overheating bearings, but ...
Five months after the derailment of its freight train in East Palestine, Ohio, Norfolk Southern has sent a combined $1 million directly to Lawrence County and Darlington ...
HARRISBURG — Spurred on by train derailments, some states with busy criss-crossing freight railroads are pursuing their own safety remedies rather than wait for federal a...
OMAHA, Neb. — Firefighters who responded to February's fiery train derailment in Ohio struggled to immediately identify the hazardous chemicals the train was hauling due ...
Norfolk Southern has recommitted to creating a fund for residents near the site of an Ohio train wreck that would cover any decline in home values since before the derail...
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Jeff Drummond spends days and nights alone in a tiny room with fake wood paneling, two small beds and a microwave atop a mini refrigerator that ser...
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Norfolk Southern's CEO is set to testify before an Ohio Senate rail safety panel Tuesday, more than two months after a fiery train derailment including h...
Seven workers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention got sick while investigating the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train in Ohio earlier this year.
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WASHINGTON — Norfolk Southern's CEO is offering support for some parts of a bipartisan Senate bill to put tougher safety regulations on railroads after last month’s fiery...
There are no signs of groundwater contamination in Pennsylvania from the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment, the state Department of Environmental Protection said in a...
OMAHA, Neb. — U.S. railroads were warned to take certain cars out of service Thursday after Norfolk Southern discovered loose wheels on a car involved in last weekend's d...
WASHINGTON — Norfolk Southern’s CEO earnestly apologized before Congress on Thursday, March 9, for last month's fiery hazardous materials train derailment on the Ohio-Pen...
OMAHA, Neb. — Federal investigators announced on Tuesday a special investigation into rail operator Norfolk Southern following a fiery derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania...
HARRISBURG — Norfolk Southern has pledged several million dollars to cover the cost of the response and recovery in Pennsylvania after last month's derailment of a train ...
A Health Resource Center for residents of Beaver and Lawrence counties who have health concerns or other questions following the train derailment on Feb. 3 in East Palest...
After a catastrophic 38-train car derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, some officials are raising concerns about a type of toxic substance that tends to stay in the enviro...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Railroads like the one involved in last month's fiery crash and toxic chemical release in Ohio would be subject to a series of new federal safety regula...
Zelienople issued a statement this week verifying that no volatile organic compounds were detected in the borough’s water supply after last month’s derailment in East Pal...
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday he doesn't want any stigmas attached to the Ohio community where a train derailed...
A post that went viral locally showing a brown dog named Charlie who supposedly lives in Mars tugged at the heartstrings of pet lovers, as it reported he suffered from vi...
