A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 26, 1986, an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine caused radioactive fallout to ...

The baffling photos have emerged of a trio of dogs that have been found wandering around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in ...

In the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, a bell rang 25 times Tuesday morning, marking each year that has passed since the world's worst nuclear disaster. Many people who lived through the 1986 Chernobyl ...

As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, concerns are growing now that the conflict has reached Chernobyl. This week, Russian forces seized control of the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant, ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned against a repeat of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, as the country marked the anniversary of the 1986 disaster at the power plant. "Europe's largest ...

The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a scenario its engineers never envisioned. By Kim Barker and Brendan Hoffman ...

Ukrainian officials say that Russian forces have captured Chernobyl, the region in the northern part of Ukraine that saw the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986. The news came just hours after ...

For some unexplained reasons, several dogs in Ukraine’s Chernobyl Exclusion Zone are reportedly turning ‘blue’! A video of ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The Chernobyl nuclear disaster was nearly 36 years ago, but it is again in the news after reports surfaced Wednesday morning that Russian forces have cut power to the facility ...

FILE - A 1986 file photo of an aerial view of the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine showing damage from an explosion and fire in reactor four on April 26, 1986 that sent large amounts of ...