Hurricane season is officially upon us. And the biggest hurricane of the year is making landfall. Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm, arrived in Jamaica on Tuesday, October 28. The United Nations ...

Hurricane Melissa marked the first major test for the federal agency now tasked with responding to global disasters.

Hurricane Melissa churned toward Cuba's second-largest city with the force of a powerful Category 4 storm on Tuesday, hours after making landfall in neighboring Jamaica as the strongest-ever cyclone ...

Hurricane Melissa barreled through the Caribbean on Wednesday after thrashing Cuba’s second-biggest city, isolating hundreds of rural communities, unleashing devastation in Jamaica and drenching Haiti ...

Rescuers and aid workers have spread across Jamaica to deliver food and water after Hurricane Melissa ravaged the island.

Founded in Santa Barbara in 1948 by Holocaust refugee William Zimdin, Direct Relief began as a small, personal effort to send ...

Melissa struck Jamaica on Tuesday as the strongest-ever hurricane to directly hit its shores, with sustained winds of 185 mph ...

As Hurricane Melissa nears Jamaica, cruise trips that left from South Florida are changing their itineraries. Category 5 Melissa is expected to make landfall Tuesday morning on the southern coast of ...

Island countries understood that a day like this would come. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. Hurricane Melissa is tearing through the Caribbean, leaving destruction in its wake. It is a ...