WASHINGTON– Well before dawn in Texas, a shallow point of the Guadalupe River rose above the height of a two-story house Thursday in just five hours, sending a rush of water across a region still affected by last summer’s fatal flash floods. Dangerous flooding for the second year in a row prompted dozens of high-water
Dense smoke from several large wildfires raging in Canada and Minnesota is expected to blanket large swaths of the Midwest and northeastern United States this week, exposing millions of people to dangerous air pollution. Minnesota officials issued an air quality alert Tuesday through Friday for areas including the Twin Cities metropolitan area, Alexandria and Two
Heavy downpours in South Texas washed out roads and left motorists stranded Tuesday as forecasters warned that a threat of more severe weather could cause dangerous flooding in already inundated counties near the Mexican border. The storms dumped up to a foot of rain in some rural areas of Texas, prompting dozens of flood rescues
NEW YORK — New York will block construction of new large data centers for up to a year so the state can create rules to protect the environment and energy grid from energy-intensive facilities that fuel artificial intelligence technology. Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign an executive order Tuesday morning imposing the nation’s first state moratorium
SALT LAKE CITY — Reviewing actions from his first term that were reversed, President Donald Trump announced Monday that he will shrink the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah. The Republican’s actions undo proclamations by his predecessors that deemed sites worthy of preservation under the Antiquities Act, a 1906 law that gives
GUNNISON, Colorado.- A plane helping fight a wildfire in Colorado crashed into a reservoir, killing the pilot, authorities said. The plane reportedly went down Sunday in Silver Jack Reservoir and divers recovered the pilot’s body, the Gunnison County Sheriff’s Office posted online. The pilot, believed to be the only person on board, was assisting firefighters