LOVELAND, Colo.—Wearing a red sweater with decorative hearts, 89-year-old Joyce Boston is back with a brigade of fellow volunteers in the “Sweetheart City” of northern Colorado to stamp a poem and postmark on Valentine’s Day cards—just as she has done each year for nearly three decades. Every year, tens of thousands of people from around […]
MOSCOW—Swathes of Russia and Ukraine were bathed in some of the strongest scarlet and green “northern lights” for years on Monday due to solar flares, according to pictures posted on social media and Russian media. The so-called “aurora borealis” bathed swathes of Siberia, the Urals, southern Russia, and Ukraine in green, scarlet, and purple overnight. […]
HELENA, Mont.—The first major snowstorm of the season dropped up to a foot of snow in the Helena, Montana, area by Wednesday, sending an army of snowplows and sand trucks out onto the roads. Residents woke up to swirling snow and the sound of shovels on sidewalks just days after temperatures rose into the lower […]
NEW YORK—The northern lights could put on a show this week—though the audience will be much smaller than some early forecasts had suggested. The sky spectacle will be fairly typical: Stretches of Canada have a chance to spot the shimmering curtain of the aurora borealis, while a few in the U.S. could see a faint […]
MONTARA, Calif.—The driver of a car that plunged off a cliff in Northern California, seriously wounding two children and a second adult after the 250-foot drop, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and child abuse, the California Highway Patrol said Tuesday. Dharmesh A. Patel of Pasadena will be booked into San Mateo County Jail […]
At least 50 people have died and “many” displaced after recent torrential rains caused flooding in northern Nigeria, Sani Yusuf, executive secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) for Jigawa State said. “When you go around [Jigawa State], we lost about 50 people to the flood,” Yusuf told reporters on camera Sunday from the […]
Officials in California on Tuesday said that wildfires that scorched across northern parts of the state last summer were caused when a tree fell on an electrical line owned by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E). In a statement, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, said that following a “meticulous and […]
Snow and cold continued to blanket the western and northern United States, setting up hazardous post-Christmas travel conditions Sunday and into the final week of 2021. Across the Intermountain West, “travel will remain dangerous and is discouraged, especially along mountain passes where long duration closures are likely. Dangerous avalanches are also likely in the Sierra […]
At least 16 provinces in mainland China have recently experienced a new round of COVID-19 outbreaks. Tougher restrictions have been implemented in northern China, with manufacturing and business operations and border ports shutdown, city services and transportation suspended, and people are not allowed to move in and out of the city, leaving travelers stranded, and […]
ANKARA, Turkey—Turkish authorities said Thursday the death toll from the severe floods and mudslides that struck the north of the country has risen to 17, and one more person is still reported missing. The floods battered the Black Sea coastal provinces of Bartin, Kastamonu, Sinop, and Samsun on Wednesday, demolishing homes and bridges, and sweeping […]
A major California wildfire, which has been burning for more than three weeks, tore through a small mountain community on Wednesday evening, destroying businesses and homes as intense winds fueled the blaze. A gas station, hotel, and bar in Greenville, Northern California, were spotted burned to the ground by a photographer on assignment for The […]
A nurse melted and burnt his truck while driving through the flames to rescue victims of the Camp Fire wildfires in Paradise, California. But when Toyota learnt about his actions, they decided to give Allyn Pierce a new truck. Pierce himself had lost his home and his workplace in the wildfires, both of which were […]
