The Atacama Desert in northern Chile holds two ghost towns called Humberstone and Santa Laura. Once home to thousands, they were abandoned in the 1960s when the saltpeter industry collapsed. Today, ...

SANTIAGO, Chile – Flames from one of Chile's worst wildfires completely consumed the town of Santa Olga as the death toll from the blazes since November rose to 10, officials said Thursday. The flames ...

An entire town has been consumed by flames as Chile witnesses worst wildfire in country's modern history. Flames has completely destroyed the town of Santa Olga as the death toll from the blazes since ...

Flames from one of Chile's worst wildfires completely consumed the town of Santa Olga. (AFP) Santiago, Chile: Flames from one of Chile's worst wildfires completely consumed the town of Santa Olga as ...

(CNN)-- Chile's Chaiten volcano spewed clouds of gray smoke, hot rocks and toxic gas on Tuesday, forcing authorities to issue an evacuation order for the more than 200 people who remained in the town ...

CHUQUICAMATA, Chile -- Living in the middle of one of the world's driest deserts, between a mile-high pile of rubble and a smoke-spewing refinery, is not everybody's idea of bliss. But the 2,500 ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The Calbuco volcano erupted Wednesday for the first time in more than 42 years, billowing a huge ash cloud over a sparsely populated, mountainous area in southern Chile.

New Mexico green and red chile: visitors and newcomers to our state sometimes ask “What’s the big deal? It’s only chile.” New Mexicans know that it’s not just chile. It’s a culture. The rich blending ...

SANTIAGO, Feb 28 (Reuters) - At least 350 people died in the coastal town of Constitution after a deadly earthquake struck Chile, state television reported on Sunday. Some of the deaths were caused ...

When she was a child, Marileu Avendaño used to go to the river with her friends to play. She was born and raised in Petorca, a rural town of more than 10,500 inhabitants in central Chile. “I used to ...