Two residents of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, have initiated a class-action lawsuit against the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway after an oil train derailed and caused an explosion that killed at least 50 ...

Firefighters inspect the smoldering wreckage of a freighter carrying crude oil that derailed into Lac-Megantic, Quebec. (François Laplante-Delagrave / AFP / Getty) When a runaway train slammed into ...

The citizens of Lac-Mégantic in Quebec, Canada suffered the horrific consequences of transporting high-risk oil on the rails on July 6, 2013. Nearly ten years since this sad tragedy, known worldwide, ...

OTTAWA, May 13 (Reuters) - A train engineer charged with criminal negligence in a Canadian rail disaster that killed 47 people in Lac-Megantic, Quebec last July will seek to be released on bail at a ...

Nearly a decade after the horrific derailment of a crude oil unit train at Lac-Mégantic, Quebec that claimed 47 lives and led to new regulations for railroad hazmat tank cars, Canada Minister of ...

Minister of Transport and Quebec Lieutenant Pablo Rodriguez on Oct. 6 announced that the Government of Canada has signed two essential agreements to launch the first calls for tender on the ...

LAC-MÉGANTIC — A coalition of citizens and organizations in Lac-Mégantic are saying they no longer trust Marc Garneau, the federal minister of Transport, and are calling on Prime Minister Justin ...

Netflix has decided to remove footage of the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster from the 2018 film Bird Box. "Netflix and the filmmakers of 'Bird Box' have decided to ...

Canadians are furious over Netflix's use of real-life footage of a deadly oil-train disaster in two of the company's recent science fiction productions. The 2013 accident in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, ...

In response to Metra's recently filed objections to the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern rail merger, the Lake County Board stepped up by adopting a resolution in line with Metra's opposition. La ...

MONTREAL — Three days after the small town of Lac-Mégantic was decimated by a runaway train, new questions are surfacing about how a 10,000-tonne vehicle was able to break loose and careen down 11 ...