October 5, 2024, 5:40am Clark County News
I haven’t had to say this too often lately but here I sit writing my column with a steady barrage of raindrops pelting my windowpane, dripping off the sill upon the dry and thirsty soil below. My rain gauge shows nearly one-half inch of rain shortly after noon Friday in… Read story
October 4, 2024, 5:24pm Nation & World
Before Hurricane Helene’s landfall last week, the National Weather Service began an all-out blitz to alert emergency planners, first responders and residents across the Southeast that the storm’s heavy rains and high winds could bring disaster hundreds of miles from the coast. Read story
October 4, 2024, 8:11am Nation & World
The search for victims of Hurricane Helene dragged into its second week on Friday, as exhausted rescue crews and volunteers continued to work long days — navigating past washed out roads, downed power lines and mudslides — to reach the isolated and the missing. Read story
October 3, 2024, 2:14pm Latest News
BLACK MOUNTAIN, N.C. (AP) — Hurricane Helene's death toll reached 200 on Thursday and could rise higher still, as searchers made their way toward the hardest to reach places in the mountains of western North Carolina, where the storm washed out roads and knocked out electricity, water and cellular service. Read story
October 3, 2024, 1:13pm Nation & World
It was just a month ago that Brooke Hiers left the state-issued emergency trailer where her family had lived since Hurricane Idalia slammed into her Gulf Coast fishing village of Horseshoe Beach in August 2023. Read story
October 3, 2024, 8:12am Nation & World
Tropical Storm Leslie formed Wednesday in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and could strengthen into a hurricane by the weekend, forecasters said. Read story
October 3, 2024, 8:11am Nation & World
Waves from Hurricane Kirk could cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions this weekend along the U.S. East Coast as well as in Bermuda, the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas, forecasters said. Read story
October 3, 2024, 8:05am Nation & World
Typhoon Krathon made landfall Thursday in Taiwan’s major port city of Kaohsiung, bringing torrential rains and fierce winds to the island’s south. Trees were brought down by high winds and roads were flooded, prompting the closure of schools and businesses. Read story
October 3, 2024, 6:02am Latest News
Hurricanes in the United States end up hundreds of times deadlier than the government calculates, contributing to more American deaths than car accidents or all the nation’s wars, a new study said. Read story
October 3, 2024, 6:01am Clark County News
October is off to a pleasant beginning with mostly clear skies, sunshine and above-average temperatures. Can it get any better than that? Tuesday’s high temperature in Vancouver was officially 79 degrees, far from record territory but 9 degrees above the normal high of 70 degrees. Wednesday was expected to be… Read story
