A prospective buyer of the 23-unit apartment complex had commissioned the soil tests. Preliminary reports indicated that a natural gas pipeline may have been damaged.

Sparse but chilling details show the firm overseeing a soil analysis at the site of a deadly Oak Cliff apartment explosion reported a drilling company damaged a gas line near the building.

Before striking a pipeline, causing a natural gas leak and subsequent explosion, an engineering firm did follow proper protocol to begin work at a Dallas apartment building.

A natural gas explosion destroyed a two-story apartment building in Dallas’ Oak Cliff neighborhood Thursday, killing three people.

When the suburban home near Hayward exploded in a fiery blast after a PG&E gas leak in December, resident Jesus Duenas “fell into the basement of the house and saw a red-hot pipe explode,” according ...

Investigators are working to determine whether proper procedures were followed after a drilling project struck a natural gas line, triggering an explosion at a building site. One of the central ...