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Blizzards, wildfires and thunderstorms swirling toward the eastern U.S. have knocked out power to thousands and grounded hundreds of flights across the Midwest.

Heavy snow touched off blizzard warnings from South Dakota to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on Sunday, the National Weather Service said. Meanwhile, high winds are shaking power lines ...Read more

Blizzards, wildfires and thunderstorms are swirling toward the eastern U.S. having knocked out power to thousands and grounded hundreds of flights across the Midwest.

Heavy snow touched off blizzard warnings from South Dakota to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on Sunday, the National Weather Service said. Meanwhile, high winds are shaking power ...Read more

DENVER — More than 30,000 homes and businesses lost power on Saturday as high winds blew across Colorado, according to several of the state’s energy utilities.

Roughly 18,000 of those outages were Xcel Energy customers in Colorado’s foothills, who lost power when the utility’s preemptive safety shutoffs started at 2 p.m. Saturday, ...Read more

Nearly 500 structures in Kankakee County were damaged by massive storms that produced tornadoes and hail swept across Illinois Tuesday night, according to Gov. JB Pritzker, who promised that state officials would seek federal aid to help those most affected.

The governor spent Thursday afternoon in the Aroma Park neighborhood alongside local ...Read more

KANKAKEE, Ill. — Bob Wehrle sat in his driveway Wednesday morning and looked at the lot where his house once stood. His belongings and debris were scattered across his lawn, and his trailer was frozen in the air, pierced by a tree. It’s difficult to make out where the house ended and began.

Wehrle, 60, said he and his wife moved into their ...Read more

CHICAGO — For a fleeting moment, as his hand cradled a hailstone just shy of 5 inches, Victor Gensini thought he had found a new record-breaker for the state of Illinois, surpassing a 4.75-inch stone found near the village of Minooka 11 years ago.

The atmospheric scientist was chasing thunderstorms near Kankakee Tuesday night that swept ...Read more

KANKAKEE, Ill. — Bob Wehrle sat in his driveway Wednesday morning and looked at the lot where his house once stood. His belongings and debris were scattered across his lawn, and his trailer was frozen in the air, pierced by a tree. It’s difficult to make out where the house ended and began.

Wehrle, 60, said he and his wife moved into their ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said President Donald Trump agreed in a Tuesday meeting at the White House to provide additional federal disaster aid in response to last year’s ice storms that caused extensive damage in northern Michigan.

The commitment is an apparent reversal of the decision by the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...Read more

If you thought it was warm at the beginning of this month, wait until this weekend.

A major heat wave is expected to infiltrate Southern Nevada by the end of this week, with record daily high temperatures expected to be set, including the first 90-degree day of the year.

The National Weather Service, on a post on X, said daytime highs will ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge has agreed to force the Trump administration to restore a federal disaster preparedness program, after an initial order in late December already called on it to do so.

The judge approved a motion from North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson and a coalition of fellow Democratic attorneys general seeking the...Read more

DETROIT — Four people were killed and 12 others injured when tornadoes ripped through southwest Michigan Friday afternoon, according to the sheriffs in Branch and Cass counties.

Three people were killed when a tornado hit the area around Union Lake west of Union City, the Branch County Sheriff’s Office said Friday night.

Twelve people were...Read more

DETROIT — Three people were killed and 12 others injured when a tornado ripped through the Union City area of Michigan on Friday afternoon, WOOD-TV reported.

Of the 12 injured, three required hospitalization, according to the Branch County Sheriff’s Office. The names of the dead were not released.

“Our thoughts are with those who have ...Read more

From nearly 300,000 without power to about 4,000 in one week.

And they were celebrating that blizzard bounce-back Friday in New Bedford, Massachusetts, as Mayor Jon Mitchell said nearly all the streets were plowed after 37 inches of snow fell on the Whaling City.

“This was a very large storm, the largest on record. The records go back to the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Shortly after enduring a series of winter storms that damaged roads and flooded businesses, Southern Californians may be pleased to learn that blue skies and toasty temperatures are on deck as possible record-setting heat sweeps into the region this week.

A high-pressure system will bring significant warming to the Southern ...Read more

Let there be light!

Power restoration crews are making major progress in their storm recovery efforts, as the Bay State power outage totals significantly dropped on Thursday.

Meanwhile, some roads were still blocked on the hard-hit South Coast, which got a whopping three feet of snow from the historic blizzard earlier this week. Plow crews ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — In the wake of Winter Storm Fern, some Central Kentucky residents say they’re seeing high utility bills they either can’t afford or which caught them off guard.

Among them is Emma Moore, a Kentucky Utilities customer. When Moore recently opened her bill, mailed Feb. 10, she was astonished by what she was being charged for...Read more