natural disasters

WASHINGTON (AP) — December's wild El Nino pushed 2015 in the United States to near-record levels for heat, moisture and downright extreme conditions, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The most powerful El Nino storm yet this week pushed onto the California coast Wednesday as police and outreach teams kept an eye o...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Soon after the ground shook around its nuclear testing facility, North Korea trumpeted its first hydrogen bomb test — a self...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — El Nino storms lined up in the Pacific, promising to drench parts of the West for more than two weeks and increasing fears of mud...

GARLAND, Texas (AP) — Residents surveyed the destruction from deadly tornadoes in North Texas as the same storm system brought winter woes to the Midw...

VENTURA, Calif. (AP) — As firefighters mopped up the remains of a wildfire on the Southern California coast, authorities turned their focus to a new c...

GARLAND, Texas (AP) — At least 11 people died and dozens were injured in apparently strong tornadoes that swept through the Dallas area and caused sub...

DOS PALOS, Calif. (AP) — A canal that delivers vital water supplies from Northern California to Southern California is sinking in places. So are stret...

BEIJING (AP) — The owner of a Chinese gypsum mine drowned Sunday after jumping into a well in an apparent suicide during rescue efforts for 17 workers...

VENTURA, Calif. (AP) — Fire crews have stopped the spread of a wind-whipped wildfire along the Southern California coast, reopened a scenic highway an...

Dozens of people lost their homes, yet they say they are thankful to see another Christmas. Tony Goodwin ducked into a storm shelter with seven others...

HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) — Mulester Johnson was with relatives when a fierce storm roared through this small town and tore the back of his house from...

SHENZHEN, China (AP) — Questions mounted Tuesday about why leaders in southern China's most prominent manufacturing city didn't act to prevent the col...

LONDON (AP) — British Tornado jets struck oil fields in eastern Syria on Thursday that help finance the Islamic State group and Germany prepared to se...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A landslide near a jade mine in northern Myanmar killed about 100 people, most of them villagers digging for green stones in a ...

DENVER (AP) — A powerful wintery storm dumped heavy snow on parts of Colorado on Tuesday while bringing the threat of tornadoes to millions in Texas, ...

GROOT MARICO, South Africa (AP) — "Is that a rain cloud, or am I imagining things?" asks Jana du Plessis, speaking Afrikaans. "I'd be thrilled if it i...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — State officials for the first time are fining California water suppliers for failing to meet a mandated 25 percent reduction in w...

TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — Three years ago, Superstorm Sandy slammed the New Jersey shore, destroying homes, splintering boardwalks, wrecking businesses ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Bracing for a tsunami like the one that devastated Japanese communities during a 2011 mega-earthquake, coastal communities from ...