Police are at the scene of a medical incident at Glantaff Road, Merthyr Tydfil The road is currently closed in both directions between Bridge Street and Glyntaff Road towards Aberfan. It is ...

In the first month of Donald Trump’s second presidency, the flow of executive orders and policy announcements from the White House has been extraordinary and dazzling, so much so that getting a ...

Hundreds of Federal Emergency Management Agency employees were fired as part of a wave of terminations of federal workers over the holiday weekend and Tuesday, according to agency officials.

In response, architects like Chasen are embracing disaster-resilient designs. The Palisades house, which took six years to complete, incorporated defensible space: a border area from which ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Salvage crews work near the wreckage site in the Potomac River of a mid-air collision between an American ...

A woman displaced after a landslide said "never in a million years" did she think her daughter would hear the same sounds as the people affected by the Aberfan disaster. Tina Honeyfield ...

Cwmtillery landslip repairs shown from above The destruction caused by the landslide reminded Tina of the Aberfan disaster which cost 116 children and 28 adults their lives. A colliery spoil tip ...

People who move onto a new 470-home estate set to be built on a flood plain in Leigh will NOT be compensated if their homes are inundated with water, a planning committee meeting has been told.

(Mahtomedi, MN) -- There’s a funeral in Mahtomedi today (Wed) for a Minnesota native killed in the crash between a passenger plane and Army helicopter near Washington, D-C last month. Thirty-five-year ...

The Aberfan Disaster was not just a tragedy - it was a failure of those in power to protect a community from an avoidable disaster. Despite years of warnings about unstable coal tips, no action ...