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SAN DIEGO – San Diego County is moving forward with two major research efforts to document the health and economic impacts of the Tijuana River Valley pollution crisis, partnering with the University of California, San Diego on an air quality study while simultaneously launching a public survey to measure the crisis’s financial toll on South Bay communities.

Even though the total area burned was relatively small, 2025 was the most economically damaging wildfire year on record, according to a new analysis published Sunday. The Los Angeles fires and a handful of severe blazes in other countries, including South Korea and Spain, drove up losses worldwide to at least $54 billion, the study estimates. It was the highest level of insured losses on record.

A fiery object disintegrated as it fell off the coast of Boston, causing a series of sonic booms that could be heard in numerous towns and cities across the state.

A weather pattern named for the Greek letter omega is guiding the United States’ weather as May turns to June, forecasters said, and the pattern is forecast to continue.

CHICAGO – A devastating parasitic fly that eats warm-blooded animals alive and could cause millions of dollars in damage to the U.S. economy has been found in a young sheep in Mexico within 31 miles of the U.S. border, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported on Friday.

Florida’s been facing its worst drought in decades – those conditions, along with the rash of wildfires the state has seen this year, could worsen the impacts of any potential hurricanes.

About 1,100 Avista customers were still without power Friday evening after a thunderstorm pounded the Inland Northwest with intense lightning, wind and rain Thursday night.

Rain on Tuesday provided some relief to Spokane’s dry spring and more appears to be on the way.

ORLANDO, Fla. — There are 26 letters in the alphabet but only 21 are set aside each year for potential tropical storm and hurricane names in areas tracked by the National Hurricane Center. The names for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season are Arthur, Bertha, Cristobal, Dolly, Edouard, Fay, Gonzalo, Hanna, Isaias, Josephine, Kyle, Leah, Marco, Nana, Omar, Paulette, Rene, Sally, Teddy, Vicky and ...

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Hawaii Friday night and was felt by residents across the islands, with reports of damage to homes and downed power lines, officials said.

Waymo said it was pausing its driverless taxi service in six cities in Texas, Tennessee and Georgia amid concerns that its cars might drive into flooded roads.

Drought-stricken areas of the southern and eastern United States are about to transition to a pattern of downpours through the end of May.

PARIS – The Louvre announced Monday it had selected a team of French, German and American architects to design its ambitious expansion project, which will transform one of the world’s foremost museums but has faced mounting criticism because of its cost.

LOS ANGELES — A wildfire sparked by the flare of a shipwrecked mariner has burned nearly a fifth of Santa Rosa Island and marks what officials called the largest blaze recorded on the island in modern history. Firefighters ferried in personnel, equipment and pallets of supplies by boat amid gusty winds and rough seas as they raced to save sensitive wildlife, including the continent’s rarest ...

It began on a whim, and a little bit of pressure from their boss – two meteorologists in 1948 trying to do what no one had done before: accurately forecast a tornado.

Wildfires fueled by fierce winds and dry conditions spread across northern Minnesota over the weekend from the North Shore to the Brainerd Lakes area where residents were forced to evacuate. Homes were destroyed on Hwy. 61 along Lake Superior. However, no homes were lost to a 1,200-acre blaze in Crow Wing County where Gov. Tim Walz declared a peacetime emergency and mobilized the National Guard. ...

Thunderstorms will carve a path through the central United States, bringing multiple days of severe weather that kicked off Saturday, continued into Sunday and will peak with the most widespread and adverse conditions Monday, forecasters say.