Australian authorities on Sunday downgraded a flood alert for a suburb of the country's largest city Sydney, after residents were evacuated due to rising waters sparked by torrential rains.

On a mild December day in 1984, a man named Bernie Goetz shot four Black teen-agers on a subway. The incident galvanized the ...

Some renters are constantly left without heat or hot water during the winter, leading them to bundle up in layers of clothing ...

Zohran Mamdani is poised to be sworn in as New York City’s next mayor on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026 — the culmination of a political campaign that propelled a socialist to power in the economic epicenter ...

Just two months ago, two New Yorkers died when severe rainfall and flooding hit every neighborhood across the city. In just ...

On Monday at 1:31 a.m. the National Weather Service released an updated flood watch in effect until 4 p.m. for Niagara, Orleans, Erie, Genesee, Wyoming, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Allegany counties.

Curtis Sliwa was the Republican candidate in the 2025 New York mayoral election, his second consecutive losing run for mayor. He didn’t come close, getting only 7% of the vote, and was dogged by ...

Los Angeles was pounded with nearly half of the city’s annual rainfall in just three days — as wild flash flooding killed a sheriff’s deputy and at least two other people across California, officials ...

The Christmas rain storm expected to washout California over the next few days is already rearing it’s ugly head — as a debris flow ripped through the mountain town of Wrightwood in San Bernardino ...

At least one person is dead after a series of severe storms swept through Northern California — triggering disastrous flash flooding and forcing multiple road closures ahead of holiday travel. Flood ...

The borough's arson wave in the 1970s was caused by financial forces and political priorities that continue to hold power in ...