Crews clear rocks, reopen busy Yosemite highway YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) -- A busy highway in Yosemite National Park is set to reopen, less than a week after house-size boulders crashed down on it during a major storm....
HOUSTON (AP) -- Heavy rain and powerful winds that spawned several tornadoes have swept across Texas, forcing drivers to abandon cars on flooded roads but not dropping enough water to make up for the state's historic drought....
CENTER POINT, Ala. (AP) -- Willie Williams Jr. was worried as he walked through his tornado-tossed neighborhood to his daughter's elementary school....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The sun is bombarding Earth with radiation from the biggest solar storm in more than six years with more to come from the fast-moving eruption....
Yosemite employee killed by wind-blown tree LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Yosemite National Park employee has died after strong winds uprooted a huge tree that fell on his tent cabin....
SEATTLE (AP) -- Tens of thousands of Pacific Northwest residents faced the prospect of a chilly weekend after a powerful storm brought snow and ice and left a tangle of fallen trees and damaged power lines. Several Oregon counties saw their worst flooding in more than a decade....
Powerful winter storms spawn January tornadoes LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- The National Weather Service says at least two people have been injured after powerful spring-like storms spawned tornadoes in Indiana, Kentucky and Mississippi....
MIAMI (AP) -- National Hurricane Center Director Bill Read, who took over the forecasting agency during a time of turmoil and leaves it much calmer, announced Saturday he will retire effective June 1....
