Tag: Biobio

• Wednesday, January 21st 2026 - 09:11 UTC

  Chile wildfires: death toll rises to 20 as authorities report widespread destruction and arrest a suspect

  

  Wildfires burning across south-central Chile have pushed the confirmed death toll to 20, with authorities keeping red alerts, a state of catastrophe, and a night-time curfew in parts of the Biobío and Ñuble regions as crews continue to battle multiple active blazes.

• Wednesday, January 21st 2026 - 08:06 UTC

  Uruguay to send 40 firefighters to Chile as Biobío and Ñuble wildfires leave at least 20 dead

  

  Uruguay will deploy a contingent of around 40 firefighters to Chile to help battle the wildfires ravaging the country’s south-central regions—particularly Biobío and Ñuble—where Chilean authorities have reported at least 20 deaths and thousands of people affected.

• Monday, January 19th 2026 - 04:05 UTC

  Chile wildfires kill at least 18; Boric orders curfew and declares state of catastrophe

  

  Wildfires sweeping through south-central Chile have killed at least 18 people—later updated by government reports to 19—and forced the evacuation of more than 50,000 residents in the Ñuble and Biobío regions amid extreme heat and strong winds.

• Tuesday, November 7th 2023 - 09:12 UTC

  Chile: 14 killed in migrant settlement fire in Biobio

  

  At least 14 migrants were killed in a fire in the town of Coronel, some 530 kilometers south of Santiago, in the region of Biobio, it was reported Monday.

• Friday, September 22nd 2023 - 09:30 UTC

  Mapuche rebels arrested in southern Chile

  

  Chilean authorities in the Biobío region announced Thursday the arrest of at least 11 leaders of the Mapuche Lafkenche Resistance (RML), a radical group behind numerous attacks in the south of the country as a result of the territorial dispute between the state, indigenous groups and forestry companies that exploit lands considered ancestral by the indigenous people.

• Tuesday, August 22nd 2023 - 10:40 UTC

  Heavy rains in Chile leave 2 people dead, thousands stranded

  

  Heavy rains in central and southern Chile have resulted in at least two people dead plus thousands stranded or taken to shelters, it was reported Monday. The victims were a driver who was hit by a tree and a firefighter who was killed Sunday when trying to rescue a lamb from the river in the town of Cañete, in the Bíobio region, some 550 kilometers south of Santiago, Undersecretary of the Interior Manuel Monsalve said.

• Thursday, February 9th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

  Evacuations ordered in Chile as wildfires run amok

  

  Chile's National Service for Disaster Prevention and Response (Senapred) Wednesday ordered the evacuation of 14 communes in the regions of Ñuble, Biobío, and La Araucanía, including Nacimiento, Purén, and Contulmo, which have all been particularly affected by the forest fires.

• Saturday, February 6th 2021 - 04:29 UTC

  Thousands of dead fish wash up on a Chilean beach

  

  Thousands of fish mysteriously washed up on shore on Horcones Beach in Chile’s south-central Biobío region, amidst fears that changes in water temperature and quality may have been the cause.

• Wednesday, October 31st 2018 - 08:23 UTC

  Argentina resumes natural gas export to Chile after twelve years

  

  Argentina has begun exporting natural gas to Chile after a 12 year interlude, Chilean President Sebastian Piñera said on Tuesday, as the two neighboring countries seek to increasingly integrate their energy supply and electricity grids.