The strong winds are gone, but many people across the Denver metro area will be spending Wednesday cleaning up the damage the 70 and even 80 mph gusts left behind.
A large wildfire burning mostly in southern El Paso County has torched about 41,000 acres, destroyed 23 homes and forced the evacuation of about 1,000 residents.
The National Hurricane Center is making changes to its “cone of uncertainty” based on an improving forecast record. The cone is designed to show people where the center of a storm is likely to head.
A man who damaged a Tuckerton marina and other boats has entered a guilty plea. The Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office announced that Bruce Roslin entered a guilty plea April 12 for the charge of second-degree conspiracy to commit theft by deception.
The heavy snow on the roof at the Econo Lodge Inn and Suites off Ramada Way became too much Sunday. The section over the indoor pool came crashing down, leaving rubble and debris.
Sailors arriving in San Francisco in the 19th century used two giant redwood trees perched on a hill to help guide their ships into the bay. The redwoods were felled for their lumber at around the time of the gold rush, but San Francisco now has a new beacon: Salesforce Tower, the tallest office building in the West.
Some major customers of Boeing Co’s popular 737 jets including Korean Air Lines Co Ltd said on Wednesday they were inspecting engines of the type that blew apart mid-air on a fatal Southwest Airlines Co flight on Tuesday.
Several homes and other structures were damaged or destroyed in several wildfires that ravaged Colorado’s Front Range Tuesday, including one that continued to spread in El Paso County Tuesday evening into Pueblo County, where it threatened the Pueblo Chemical Depot.
Dozens of insurance companies have filed a lawsuit against PG&E in connection with the company’s role in wildfires that scorched the North Bay wine country and nearby regions, litigation that intensifies the financial pressure on the embattled utility.
More than 340 people have been rescued flood-ravaged Kauai communities, where raging, debris-laden waters tossed homes from their foundations, forced residents to flee to their rooftops and triggered at least eight separate landslides along Kuhio Highway.
The National Weather Service said late Monday night that a tornado with estimated top wind speeds of 130 mph hit Lynchburg and the neighboring counties of Campbell and Amherst on Sunday evening.
It was Easter Sunday morning when a stolen black Mazda was found ditched behind a school in Bullitt County. The tires were stuck in the mud and the front windshield had been kicked in.
Wind ripped the roof off Lutherwood senior living apartments in Scranton Monday. Emergency responders believe there is no structural damage to the building near Lake Scranton, but the sixth floor is taking on water.
