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With Border Patrol agents expected to begin sweeps in New Orleans this week, some Hispanic businesses are temporarily closing ...

MANCHESTER, Tenn. — Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival organizers surprised fans Tuesday with the 2026 lineup. Tickets and accommodations go on sale Friday, Dec. 5, at 9 a.m. ET. The lineup includes ...

Hurricane Melissa's wind gusts reached a record-breaking speed shortly before the storm made landfall in the Caribbean last month, according to data recorded during the deadly event. The data was ...

My worry for the 2025 hurricane season was what I labeled early-on as an “incendiary” mix of more frequent and extreme weather events with a degraded ability to save life and property. With the end of ...

Back in May, our WRAL Severe Weather Team released our forecast for a “near-average” hurricane season for 2025. At the time, we pointed to a mix of sea-surface temperature patterns and the El ...

A front pushing polar air from Canada will get to Tampa Bay early next week, bringing the coldest temperatures of the season. This photo from January 2024 shows people on Clearwater Beach when ...

The National Hurricane Center does not expect any tropical cyclone formation in the Atlantic over the next seven days. While the hurricane season is quiet, a strong cold front is expected to bring the ...

This story was produced by Grist and co-published with Verite News. Jennifer and Dean Bye were just getting by before Hurricane Ida slammed into southern Louisiana in 2021. The couple own a house in a ...

This story is part of The Disaster Economy, a Grist series exploring the often chaotic, lucrative world of disaster response and recovery. It was produced by Grist and co-published with Verite News, ...