Cycling Canada has been hosting its Canadian Road Championships for the last two years in the region with Lac-Mégantic greeting both the elite Championships in 2012 and the Para/Junior/Masters ...

Canada's Parliament passed a motion Wednesday saying Netflix should compensate the people of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, for using footage of the 2013 rail disaster in the post-apocalyptic survival film ...

LAC-MÉGANTIC, Quebec - The Canadian government did not adequately audit the rail firm at the center of the Lac-Mégantic crude tanker disaster that last year killed 47 people, an independent federal ...

LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (AP) — Crowds packed a church in the eastern Quebec town of Lac-Megantic Sunday to remember the 47 people who were killed there a year ago when a runaway oil train derailed and ...

TORONTO (AP) — The weak safety culture of a now-defunct railway company and poor government oversight were among the many factors that led to an oil train explosion that killed 47 people in Quebec ...

A deadly crude oil train disaster in Canada has brought renewed scrutiny to the growing use of rail to carry oil — including hundreds of thousands of barrels in Texas — and prompted worries that the ...

(AP) Three employees of the insolvent railway company involved in last summer’s runaway oil train disaster that killed 47 people are due to appear in court Tuesday to face criminal negligence charges ...

The citizens of Lac-Mégantic share their harrowing accounts from that night. The episode then flashes back to June 30, 2013, where the ill-fated train leaves the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota. As ...

LAC-MÉGANTIC, Quebec, Aug 19 (Reuters) - The Canadian government did not adequately audit the railroad company at the center of the Lac-Mégantic crude tanker disaster, which last year killed 47 people ...

(AP) Three employees and the railway company involved in last summer’s massive explosion of a runaway oil train that incinerated much of a small town in Quebec, killing 47 people, will face criminal ...