Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Atacama Desert in northern Chile holds two ghost towns called Humberstone and Santa Laura. Once home to thousands, they were ...

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 ...

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 ...

Karina Torres has spent more than seven years without running water in her home in central Chile. Yet, across the road, water flows in abundance to irrigate thousands of hectares of avocados. It's one ...

Once a thriving community, Humberstone in northern Chile is now a ghost town. Beginning in the late 1860s, hundreds of people lived and worked in Humberstone and nearby Santa Laura. Located in the ...