After nearly two months trapped in a collapsed copper mine, 33 miners begin training Monday for the final chapter of their underground odyssey: escape. As three simultaneous rescue operations slowly drill through 2,250 feet of solid rock, the men are...

The 33 miners trapped deep underground in northern Chile may be brought back to the surface as early as November, according to a document provided to workers on the various rescue efforts. The quickest possible route to the surface is the rescue...

The non-profit group Un Techo para Chile (A Roof for Chile) said Monday that it has erected 18,412 temporary dwellings for some of the hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the Feb. 27 earthquake. “Practically, up to today, we’ve already...

A fire has now burned 4,500 hectares (11,000 acres) in the southern Chilean region of Bio Bio and has damaged properties belonging to several forestry companies, the National Forestry Corporation, or Conaf, said. The blaze, which broke out Sunday night...

Melting ice in southern Chile caused a glacial lake to swell and then empty suddenly, sending a “tsunami” rolling through a river, a scientist said Thursday. No one was injured in the remote region.