It’s one thing to be a retired first responder and consultant who has spent decades training others to prepare, respond and recover from emergencies. It’s another thing entirely to become the ...

Through rain, and through shine, the Whitesboro Peanut Festival goes on. Saturday’s storms. There was a car show, a carnival ...

You’re not imagining it: Natural disasters are increasing both in frequency and severity. Experts estimate that over the past two decades, the world has experienced around 400 per year. That means we ...

Safety in tsunamis is all about one issue — evacuation. The whole point of a tsunami warning system is to get people out of harm’s way before tsunami surges reach them. There are two big pieces to the ...

Experts reassessed the damage from a tornado that left three people dead in June, and gave it the strongest possible rating on the tornado scale. By Emma Schartz The National Weather Service announced ...

A deadly tornado that tore across southeastern North Dakota this summer has been upgraded to an EF5 with winds topping 200 mph (322 kph), the strongest classification of tornado and the first ...

The nation's longest "drought" for the most extreme type of tornado has come to an end, scientists from the National Weather Service announced. The tornado that ended the 12-year gap actually hit back ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — An offshore earthquake of magnitude 6.9 collapsed walls of houses and buildings late Tuesday in a central Philippine province, killing at least 31 people, injuring many ...

A 12-year EF5 tornado drought ended Monday morning with the National Weather Service in Grand Forks, North Dakota, announcing that a twister in Enderlin, North Dakota, on June 20 had winds greater ...