Conneaut’s upgrades began earlier this spring and are scheduled to conclude in November. Meanwhile, Ashtabula is planning a ...

ASHTABULA — Council approved allowing city administration to apply for a water pollution control loan fund to pay for upgrades at the city's wastewater treatment plant at a Monday meeting.

Engineering disasters serve as tragic but crucial learning opportunities for the advancement of safety standards and design principles. This collection of 15 catastrophic failures spans nearly 150 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — On a fateful night during a heavy snow in 1876, an experimental iron bridge spanning the Ashtabula River snapped, sending two train engines and several passenger compartments into a ...

The Ashtabula Disaster was the 19th century's deadliest bridge failure. The Ashtabula Train Disaster was the deadliest and most notorious bridge failure of the 19th Century and a transforming event in ...

ASHTABULA, Ohio - Today, 140 years ago, Mattie Brunner had less than two days to live. So did Jonathan Rice, Martha Smith and almost 100 other passengers aboard a train crossing a bridge high over the ...

Let’s face it: something draws us to a disaster, as long as it doesn’t strike too close. And in all endeavors, but especially in technology, failures-even ghastly, gruesome, cataclysmic ones-can ...