The U.S. Wildland Fire Service identified the three firefighters killed as Emily Barker, 38, of Michigan, Nick Hutcherson, 27 of Arizona, and Sydney Watson, 27, of Alabama.

Skydiving plane crashes in France, killing 11 people Five instructors and five independent nurses appeared to be among the casualties, CNN affiliate BFMTV cited Thierry Pechey, president of the ...

Five counties — Bullitt, Madison, Meade, Mercer and Spencer — have declared a local state of emergency, according to Beshear’s office. Precautionary evacuations are underway ...

Powerful wind gusts, extremely low humidity and the threat of dry lightning are fueling an outbreak of large wildfires across the Southwest. Through the week leading up to the Fourth of July holiday, ...

'Ring of fire' thunderstorms to erupt around heat dome, bring rounds of severe weather A sprawling heat dome will fuel repeated "ring of fire" thunderstorms capable of producing damaging wind gusts ...

Extreme heat is having dire effects across western Europe as high temperatures continue to scorch multiple countries, leading to more deaths and closures tied to the heat. Many of the fatalities ...

Massive Midwest heat dome brewing prior to Independence Day; storms to cruise rim of heat Parts of the central and eastern United States will become as hot as a firecracker in the days ahead of ...

As thunderstorms tracked east across southern Illinois on June 21, a powerful tornado was seen churning through a field near Mount Vernon. Authorities said the storm caused two fa ...

Extreme fire conditions are forecast through this weekend across the interior western United States, adding to the wildfires that have erupted there recently. Multiple wildfires, most notably the ...

More than 12,000 daily record highs were set During the peak of the heat wave on March 18 and 22, NOAA says that 4,447 daily record high temperatures were set, and 2,010 of those records set their ...

Venezuela death toll surges to 1,400 as crews continue search after back-to-back earthquakes A pair of strong earthquakes struck Venezuela Wednesday evening, causing hundreds of buildings to collapse.

A falling tree during high winds last week in Rochester, New York, exposed a century-old gravestone buried in the dirt. Edna Amelia Goodman Allen, born in 1892, died at the age of 26 years in 1918, ...