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Another round of significant heat across California's interior is expected to bring potentially dangerous conditions back to the state, with weather officials warning of "relentless" heat risk over the Southwest beginning this weekend.

While recent days have cooled since the record-breaking heat spell peaking at 104 degrees, the ones ahead could be similarly scorching and unrelenting.

As utility workers push to restore power one week after Hurricane Beryl swept through the Houston area, some frustrated residents have hurled threats at the line crews, Texas officials said. “I understand the ang[er] and frustration of being without electricity, but you don’t take it into your own hands and harass or threaten the linemen,” Houston Mayor John Whitmire said. Frustrated residents ...

The city of Spokane is working hard to keep people cool during these record-breaking temperatures. 

A historic Las Vegas heat wave will continue setting records into the weekend maybe very slightly abated, according to the National Weather Service.

Spokane sees record heat, "moderate" temperatures looking forward. 

Sweltering conditions are expected to persist in Spokane, with Wednesday still the forecast peak of a dayslong heat wave.

When temperatures in Spokane reach 95 degrees, it’s not just the scorching conditions and brutal sun that make Dr. Rob Lichfield start to sweat. He knows his job as the division lead physician at Providence urgent care is about to be busy.

With the first day of this summer’s heat wave in Spokane’s rearview mirror, meteorologists predict the coming days may be slightly warmer than previously forecast, and local organizations are bracing to help the area’s most vulnerable groups stay safe.

Pyrotechnics used during an Odesza concert at the Gorge Amphitheatre started a brush fire during the show Saturday night.

If weather patterns go as expected, Spokane’s upcoming heat wave will break records.

Increasingly hot and dry weather and correspondingly low humidity has prompted the National Weather Service to issue a fire weather watch for the Cascades through the weekend.

Temperatures are forecast to rise and fall next week in the Spokane area, but even the low temperatures on the coolest days are expected to still be high.

With temperatures expected to top 100 degrees for multiple days in the next week, Avista Utilities officials say customers should not expect any changes to their electricity, even after the utility announced last week the possibility of power-conserving planned outages during the summer.

Beryl is set to reemerge into the Gulf of Mexico overnight and begin strengthening again on a track that puts most of the Texas coast in its crosshairs for a Monday hit.

Meteorologists from Spokane to Southern California are warning of a potentially deadly heat wave expected to stretch from Friday through much of next week.

As Hurricane Beryl bore down on Jamaica on Wednesday, the islands in its wake were getting a clearer picture of the destruction the record-setting storm left behind in the southeastern Caribbean.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Donald Trump should come forward with his plan to quickly end the war with Russia, warning that any proposal must avoid violating the nation’s sovereignty.

Violent crime in the United States dropped significantly in the first quarter of 2024 compared with the same period last year, according to the FBI’s Quarterly Uniform Crime Report released in June.