SEATTLE — Seattle police are investigating an incident where a BNSF train fatally struck a woman in the SODO neighborhood Friday afternoon. Officials said the collision occurred in the 300 block of ...

Seattle emergency officials are urging BNSF Railway to improve safety procedures related to a tunnel within the city now used for increasing amount of crude-by-rail (CBR) traffic. The city’s Office of ...

The trial in a lawsuit by a broad coalition of environmental groups seeking to force BNSF to cover its coal-train loads to prevent water pollution began Monday in federal court in Seattle. In a case ...

SEATTLE — BNSF Railway must pay nearly $400 million to a Native American tribe in Washington state, a federal judge ordered Monday after finding that the company intentionally trespassed when it ...

More than 40 demonstrators filled the headquarters office of the BNSF railroad in Seattle on Monday to protest the extraction and transport of fossil fuel. With banners and signs, songs and chants, ...

SEATTLE – Seattle city leaders claim Burlington Northern Santa Fe isn't doing enough to keep safety a priority when it comes to oil trains moving through the city. Seattle's latest push is for federal ...

SEATTLE — BNSF Railway must pay nearly $400 million to a Native American tribe in Washington state, a federal judge ordered Monday after finding that the company intentionally trespassed when it ...

BNSF is developing a new rail hub at the Port of Tacoma, Wash.,in partnership with the Northwest Seaport Alliance (NWSA), “to meet increased intermodal demand in the greater Seattle region and unlock ...

SEATTLE -- Train traffic came to a halt in Ballard Monday morning as the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad worked to clear out a homeless encampment. From 8 a.m. to 12 p.m., freight trains were ...

IT managers at The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. said the IP network that the railroad is installing along its tracks in the Seattle area may provide a model for similar deployments in ...

A federal judge on Monday ordered BNSF Railway to pay the Swinomish Tribe $395 million for illegally running mile-long oil trains through the tribe’s reservation for nearly a decade. Since 2012, BNSF ...

SEATTLE — BNSF Railway must pay nearly $400 million to a Native American tribe in Washington state, a federal judge ordered June 17 after finding that the company intentionally trespassed when it ...