CHICAGO (WLS) -- People who run the Pullman Community Center say they have spent nearly $100,000 making repairs to relatively new air conditioning units. The two large Carrier air conditioning units, ...

This summer has truly been a scorcher in many parts of the United States. In the middle of June, residents of southwest California, Arizona and surrounding areas saw temperatures creep towards 120°F, ...

Buffalo’s extraordinary June heat this year has been made tolerable by the ingenuity of a Buffalonian. Born and raised on a farm in Angola, Willis Carrier was a member of the Angola High School Class ...

With a heat wave engulfing huge portions of the country and the scorching dog days of summer not far behind, we owe it to ourselves to take a moment and thank Willis Haviland Carrier‘s mother for ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The phrase "there's always a Buffalo connection" couldn't be more true when you turn on your air conditioner to cool down this summer. Western New York native Willis Carrier is known ...

With the U.S. in the midst of a massive heat wave during one of the warmest years on record, it is, in a word, hot. As temperatures rise—and look to keep rising over the coming years—the dangers of ...

On any scorching hot day, most of us head indoors to enjoy the air conditioner. It's a machine that was invented 117 years ago not out of comfort, but necessity. "It's allowed our society or any ...