Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Usually food-related disasters take the form of viral diseases, but over a hundred years ago in Boston, molasses was the source of ...

NEW YORK (AP) – A blond, bespectacled girl with a serious expression and a red T-shirt chugs along a street in runner’s togs and bib in a photo shared thousands of times on social media soon after the ...

A 25-foot wave of molasses swept through Boston’s North End, crushing buildings and killing 21 people—some as young as 10. This is the tragic, real story of one of America’s strangest disasters.

The 2011 Boston Urban Symposium, hosted by Boston University’s City Planning and Urban Affairs Programs, addressed methods of countering disasters through elaborate city planning in the wake of ...

BOSTON — Natural disasters in New England are increasing in frequency and severity, and the next climate-related emergency is less a matter of “if” than “when,” according to experts at a State House ...

BOSTON — The Healey administration is proposing to create a new disaster relief fund as costs to the state and local governments from climate change-fueled storms continue to mount. Tucked into Gov.