WRIGHTWOOD, Calif. (AP) — A strong storm system that brought relentless winds, rain and snowfall to California this week was expected to ease Friday, but there was still a risk of high surf along the…

TOPEKA — President Donald Trump approved a disaster declaration for 12 Kansas counties that were hammered in July by straight-line winds, severe storms and flooding. The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Monday that federal funding…

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — National Guard troops went door-to-door early Friday to evacuate a farming city north of Seattle as severe flooding throughout Western Washington stranded families on rooftops, washed over bridges and ripped homes from…

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Humberto formed Friday in the Atlantic Ocean on track to become a major hurricane, while forecasters monitored a nearby tropical disturbance that could bring dangerous weather to the southeastern United States…

Science and technology have made many hazards predictable in ways that were unthinkable 150 years ago. Tragedies, like the Central Texas flash flood, can be averted or minimized when knowledge is combined with appropriate investments…

Iola officials will continue to look at options now that the city will almost certainly be denied federal funding for a number of flood-control measures for Riverside Park. City Administrator Matt Rehder said the writing’s…

Equipped with a bucket and rag, I went down to the creek’s bank Wednesday evening seeking atonement. Early last summer, I had planted two viburnum bushes about eight feet from the water’s edge.  Two things…

Allen County was spared the misery of a storm system that forced several water rescues in Wichita and El Dorado earlier in the day, but Tuesday’s torrential downpours still caused plenty of headaches. Almost 3…

Soybean planting is well underway in Kansas with 43% planted, based on the USDA-NASS Crop Progress and Condition Report from May 19. However, heavy rainfall has occurred in many locations across the eastern half of…

A weather system that blasted other parts of the Midwest with tornadoes  brought plenty of rain to Iola Monday afternoon. According to Iola records, about 2.8 inches of rain fell in a little over an…