Evacuations lifted for thousands in Tahoe as wildfire stalls
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — Tens of thousands of people who fled South Lake Tahoe in the teeth of a wildfire were returning home...
Treasured US West trout streams wither amid heat, drought
SARATOGA, Wyo. — The North Platte River in southern Wyoming has been so low in places lately that a toddler could easily wade across...
Maine nursing home to close; Vermont courts extend protocols
A Maine nursing home on Deer Isle will close at the end of October, citing both the coronavirus pandemic and the recent struggle to...
Search resumes for 2 missing after car swept away in storm
PASSAIC, N.J. — As residents and businesses across New Jersey continued to spend the holiday weekend trying to clean up damage from last week's...
US Navy IDs 5 killed in helicopter crash off California
SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Navy on Sunday identified five sailors who died when a helicopter crashed in the Pacific Ocean off of Southern...
Police: Four shot dead in Houston house that was set ablaze
HOUSTON — Firefighters found two adults and two children dead of apparent gunshot wounds after extinguishing a blaze at a home in Houston on...
After Ida’s fury, infrastructure key in preventing misery
Deadly flooding delivered to the Northeast by the torrential rains of what remained of Hurricane Ida has brought a new urgency and a fresh...
‘Shang-Chi’ blasts Labor Day records debuting with $71.4M
NEW YORK — On what's traditionally one of the sleepiest weekends at the movies, the Marvel film “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten...
Hospitals in crisis in least vaccinated state in US
JACKSON, Miss. — As patients stream into Mississippi hospitals one after another, doctors and nurses have become all too accustomed to the rampant denial...
Firefighter assigned to California blaze dies of illness
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — A firefighter has died of an illness while assigned to one of California's largest wildfires, authorities said Sunday, marking...