July 12, 2024, 8:16am Nation & World
Owen Bradley has been listening to the flow of the Great Brook outside his historic brick house in Vermont for nearly 40 years. But the sound changed this week as raging waters inched closer, building to a torrent that tore through the back of the building, ripped off the decks… Read story
July 11, 2024, 4:17pm Clark County News
A summer heat wave that lingered for days across the Pacific Northwest either broke or tied daily temperature records in Vancouver. Read story
July 11, 2024, 2:02pm Latest News
Authorities in Western states warned of the rising risk of wildfires amid a protracted heat wave that has dried out the landscape while setting temperature records and putting lives at risk. Forecasters, meanwhile, said Thursday that some relief was due by the weekend. Read story
July 11, 2024, 11:58am Nation & World
About 500,000 customers still won’t have electricity into next week as wide outages from Hurricane Beryl persist and frustration mounts over the pace of restoration, an official with Houston’s biggest power utility said Thursday. Read story
July 11, 2024, 8:58am Nation & World
The remnants of Hurricane Beryl dumped heavy rain on Vermont, causing flooding that washed away an apartment building, knocked out bridges and cut off towns, and retraumatized a state still recovering from catastrophic flooding that hit a year ago to the day. At least one person died. Read story
July 11, 2024, 8:55am Nation & World
Despite a record 46-day streak of triple digit feels-like temperatures, Miami’s unprecedented brutal summer last year wasn’t that deadly, contrasting with the rest of the nation where federal records show heat fatalities nationally spiked to a 45-year high. Read story
July 11, 2024, 8:54am Nation & World
Pressure mounted Wednesday on Houston’s power utility as millions of residents still had no electricity nearly three days after Hurricane Beryl made landfall, stoking questions over how a city that is all too familiar with destructive weather was unable to better withstand a Category 1 storm. Read story
July 11, 2024, 8:49am Nation & World
Weather alerts, forest fires, melting pavement in cities: A sizzling heat wave has sent temperatures in parts of central and southern Europe soaring toward 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in some places. Read story
July 11, 2024, 6:06am Clark County News
As Clark County councilors plan for the next 20 years of population growth, they’re also grappling with new requirements to address the causes and effects of climate change. Read story
July 11, 2024, 6:00am Clark County News
Vancouver managed to set yet another record high temperature Tuesday with 103 degrees, surpassing the old record of 97 degrees in 1926. In addition, I mentioned in Tuesday’s column that on Monday, Vancouver tied the record high of 100 degrees set in 1905 as of 5 p.m. The thermometer managed… Read story
