Rep. Eric Sorensen (D-Ill.) aims to introduce legislation this fall that would establish an agency to investigate deadly weather events. Eric Sorensen has felt for years that the country could better ...

USDA is launching the next phase of its Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP), aimed at farmers who suffered losses from natural disasters in 2023 and 2024. This new round — Stage 2 — was ...

Filling in for missing federal data, a new public database shows billion-dollar weather and climate disasters on the rise. Filling in for missing federal data, a new public database shows ...

The shutdown of the U.S. government has brought work determined by the Trump administration to be "nonessential" to a halt across the country as thousands of federal employees have been furloughed and ...

There are three emergency storm shelters that open if an outdoor warning siren sounds in Davison County. These include the Davison County Courthouse in Mitchell, the Downtown Gym at First and Main ...

LSU football faces a bar-none, without question, must-win game Saturday night against Texas A&M. The expectation for this LSU team before the season began was the playoffs, given the $18 million spent ...

Hours after an Atlantic hurricane came for Appalachia, many residents of rolling, tree-lined western Asheville, North Carolina, had nothing to do and nowhere to go. More than 1,000 roads were closed, ...

Although nine in 10 Americans believe it’s important to be prepared for the worst in the event of a natural disaster — less than half actually have a preparedness plan in place, according to a new ...

The first half of this year was the costliest ever recorded for weather and climate disasters in the United States, according to an analysis published Wednesday by the nonprofit organization Climate ...

Indonesia’s government has been at pains to stress that the recent catastrophe in Sumatra was triggered by a rare meteorological event. Cyclone Senyar formed in the Malacca Strait, an area where the ...