Our news partner, WVUA in Tuscaloosa, reports that the explosion happened just before noon at the Hunt Oil Refinery in West Tuscaloosa.

Authorities are working to stabilize the scene, evaluate possible injuries and make sure everyone is accounted for.

Various local news sources in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, are reporting that an explosion has left smoke billowing from a local ...

Twelve years after an infamous Chevron fire in Richmond, California, two key regulations are being challenged in court.

Two men in their early 20s have been injured after an explosion at the rear of a property exposed a clan lab and led police to a haul of drugs. Police and firefighting crews were called to a house ...

On August 6, 2012, a corroded, eight-inch pipe at Chevron’s oil refinery in Richmond, California, cracked open, sending a ...

A potential tragedy was narrowly averted in Poughkeepsie, New York, on Saturday when a woman and two children narrowly escaped a manhole explosion.The City of Poughkeepsie Fire Department released ...

US supermajor ExxonMobil has relinquished a pair of exploration blocks offshore Brazil, after an attempt to unlock hydrocarbons in the ultra-deepwater section of the Sergipe-Alagoas basin ended ...

Photo immediately following an April 9 gas line explosion at 17th Street and Franklin Avenue in Lexington, Missouri. Cell photo snapped by Luke Peckham, 14, and shared from the cell phone of his ...

Five people were injured after a house explosion and fire in Indiana.It all unfolded around 8:57 a.m. Thursday, when Richmond Police and Fire Departments responded to the 100 block of Randolph ...

An explosion at the Promontory, Utah facility owned by aerospace and defense technology company Northrop Grumman was reported Wednesday, at 9:38 a.m. EDT (1338 GMT, 7:38 a.m., local time in ...