A deadly explosion aboard a commercial ship stunned the maritime world and left many asking how it could happen. This video ...

On a warm July night a year ago, crews dredging as part of an expansion at Irving's shipyard started pulling out a treasure ...

A resident described the moment a terraced house exploded overnight as “like a nuclear bomb going off”.

For this column I nominate Massachusetts Maritime Academy. Their QI training program was the gold standard in disaster response training.

But our city can also glean lessons from the Halifax Explosion — especially about the dangers of scapegoating in a time of crisis. The example of Francis Mackey, the Halifax mariner who was ...

Historic church that survived Halifax explosion closes its doors Among the Irish poor whose grandparents built the church in 1883, legend handed down over the years has it that the north side took ...

The sound of ship horns echoed through downtown Halifax at 9:04 this morning, the exact time the Halifax explosion shook the city 107 years ago.

Local News Key Bridge collapse is not the only maritime disaster to strike Patapsco River An explosion on the Alum Chine in 1913 killed 33. (from the book, “Baltimore, A Picture History, 1858 ...

The hook: A Cincinnati-built steamboat exploded in April 1865, killing some 2,000 people in what remains to this day the worst maritime disaster in the history of the United States.

A new book from Dr. Afua Cooper, Halifax's seventh poet laureate and a Black Studies scholar at Dal, uses poetry, vivid archival images, and evocative illustrations to paint a powerful picture of the ...