GALENA, Ill. (AP) — A freight train loaded with crude oil derailed in northern Illinois, bursting into flames and prompting officials to suggest that everyone with 1 mile evacuate, authorities said.

No deaths have been reported, but residents of Casselton, less than a mile away from the derailment, were urged to evacuate when the wind shifted, sending oily smoke in their direction. Here's a map ...

A series of meetings in Minnesota to discuss the safety of oil trains originating in North Dakota’s Bakken oil play is symptomatic of states’ concern all along the rails that carry the volatile crude.

Top officials from the railroad and oil industries agreed Wednesday to consider voluntary new safety steps for oil trains carrying crude from the Bakken region of North Dakota in the wake of recent ...

In an order aimed squarely on North Dakota's booming number of oil-filled freight trains — and growing fears of the potential for explosive accidents — the U.S. Department of Transportation on Tuesday ...

The bomb trains have returned to upstate New York. These are trains carrying explosive Bakken crude oil from North Dakota. In July 2013 one such train derailed and exploded in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, ...