New Zealand warns landslide rescue effort could take days
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Sonny Worrall says he was swimming in a pool when a caravan smashed through a cinder block wall and crashed down beside him.
BIG SUR, Calif.—Hillary Lipman looked out from a gas station at the nearly empty California Highway 1 and shook his head in frustration over a road closure that has dragged into a third year. Business at his Shell station has dropped as much as 80% since ...
At least 41 people are dead in central and southeastern Mexico after days of torrential rainfall triggered floods and landslides, authorities said Saturday. The death toll rose as thousands of soldiers scoured the destruction left in the wake of the ...
At least 15 people were killed late Tuesday after debris from a massive landslide hit a bus in India’s northern state of Himachal Pradesh, local authorities said. The bus was traveling on a hilly stretch near the Bilaspur district when a landslide struck ...
A landslide buried the village of Tarasin in Sudan’s western region of Darfur Sunday, killing at least 1,000 people in one of the deadliest natural disasters in the country’s history. The village was “completely leveled to the ground,” and ...
A 90-milesection of California's Highway 1 along the famous Big Sur coast fully reopened Wednesday after three years of closures and repairs following a series of landslides and a roadway collapse that hampered tourism on the scenic route.
MEDAN, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers searched Thursday in rivers and the rubble of villages for bodies and possible survivors, after flash floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island left 49 people dead and 67 missing. Monsoon rains over the past ...
A popular heritage railway line in Gwynedd has been hit by a major landslide. Trees and an estimated 100 cubic metres of mud slumped onto the Welsh Highland Railway following recent heavy rain. The Ffestiniog Railway Company (FRC) said the mudslide ...
MEDAN, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers searched Thursday in rivers and the rubble of villages for bodies and possible survivors after flash floods and landslides on Indonesia's Sumatra island left 69 people dead and 59 missing. Monsoon rains over the past week ...