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 ...

SANTIAGO, Chile – Chile's Calbuco volcano has erupted for the first time in more than 42 years, and Chilean authorities have ordered the evacuation of the few thousand people living in a town a few ...

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 ...

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.