BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian officials have downgraded the alert level for an eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano, and some airports in the area have resumed operations. The volcano in ...

Hundreds of families in Colombia are facing a choice: abandon their homes and livelihoods, or face the devastation of a predicted volcanic eruption in the coming weeks. The Nevado del Ruiz volcano, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - The Nevado del Ruiz volcano near Villa Maria, Colombia, July 1, 2012. Colombian officials began to evacuate 40 families ...

Colombian officials recommended the preventive, but immediate, evacuation of the towns closest to the crater of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano, whose seismic activity could trigger an eruption. (FILES) ...

PURACE, Colombia — Oliverio Quira often goes to check on his cattle on a plot of land he owns less than a mile from the Purace volcano in southwestern Colombia. There he sits and watches the billowing ...

Screams, dismembered bodies among the thousands dead, and his town buried in mud. Survivor William Suarez remembers the horror of Colombia's Nevado del Ruiz volcanic eruption of 1985, but he dismisses ...

Authorities in Colombia on Saturday recommended that towns closest to a rumbling, notorious volcano be evacuated, ahead of a a possible eruption. The Disaster Risk Management Office said it was moving ...