Subway service in Chile's capital was suspended Friday, trapping hundreds of thousands of commuters on their way home from work, after high school students flooded subway stations, jumping ...

Chile’s peso jumped on Monday as a landslide victory for Communist Jeannette Jara in a left-wing presidential primary damped ...

In Chile's capital Santiago, grass is becoming a rare luxury amid a decade-long drought that has forced the city to roll out emergency measures to limit water use and led local authorities and ...

Chile’s capital of Santiago was blanketed by smoke early on Friday as authorities battled multiple forest fires in the greater metropolitan area and temperatures soared amid an on-going heatwave.

Chile's state-owned copper mining company, Codelco, has shut down a smelting facility blamed for significant pollution in the Quintero Bay.

SANTIAGO, Chile — Firefighters rescued dozens of people from a mixed commercial and residential high rise in Chile’s capital ...

A British pensioner has been arrested in Chile after a Mexican gang allegedly promised him £3.7million to smuggle a suitcase of crystal meth.

Google will rework from scratch its plans to build a $200 million data center in Santiago after concerns were raised about its environmental impact on the Chilean capital, the U.S. tech giant said ...

After an eight-day “cold wave” pushed through the capital region this week, the average temperature for May dropped to 37 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) – the coldest since 1950 ...

Forest fires tearing through central Chile have killed at least 112 people, Interior Undersecretary Manuel Monsalve said Sunday, after the president warned the death toll would rise as high ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — Slimy, green seaweed floats in water-filled beakers, buckets and bins in labs of the University of Santiago, algae which scientists in the Chilean capital are trying to turn ...

Chile's state-owned copper mining giant Codelco has shut down its Ventanas copper smelter after decades of polluting Quintero Bay with toxic gases and turning it, along with 15 other companies ...