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 ...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - U.S. manufacturer Honeywell International Inc said on Tuesday it has found a way to make a safer alternative to ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer that has been used as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite a plethora of rules regulating ammonium nitrate, the chemical has become the most common explosive used in terror ...