Before Hurricane Melissa, the most damaging hurricane to hit Jamaica was Gilbert, which struck the island in September 1988.

That’s pretty much in line with the U.S.’s federal forecast from May, which predicted three to five major hurricanes. While ...

More than 1% of Americans headed west in one of the largest voluntary mass migrations in human history. It helped define who ...

We all heard about the catastrophic hurricane that slammed into Jamaica last week. Hurricane Melissa rewrote the record books ...

A College Station Fire Department veteran and current Texas A&M Task Force 1 member has been named Assistant Chief of the ...

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In an interview aired Wednesday night, Trump said he may withhold aid to California until the state adjusts how it manages ...

At least 48 deaths have been reported throughout Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. "I have never seen a disaster ...

Floodwaters inundated Iowa City and the University of Iowa arts campus on Sunday despite what one official called a "Herculean effort" to hold back the water with sandbags. "We've had the [National ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Cuba overnight after battering Jamaica as one of the most powerful landfalling storms in ...

As climate change intensifies, there is no question that the intensity and frequency of extreme weather—often resulting in ...