Photos: Landslide in Washington threatens 30 homes
A landslide severely damaged one home and put more than 30 homes in danger on Whidbey Island, about 50 miles north of Seattle in the Puget Sound around 4 a.m. on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. No one was...
View ArticleOn a hot day in the Bay Area, water beckons
Kids around the San Francisco Bay Area visited local water fountains as temperatures rose Thursday, May 2, 2013. Close 1 of 11 Keegan Parry, 4, runs through the Cupertino Civic Center fountains to...
View ArticlePhotos: Tornadoes Slam Oklahoma, Missouri
Tornadoes rolled in from the prairie and slammed parts of Oklahoma and Missouri on Friday, May 31, 2013, killing at least nine people, a mother and baby, injuring many others and destroying homes and...
View ArticlePhotos: 19 firefighters killed in Arizona wildfire
YARNELL, Ariz.—A sudden windstorm turned an Arizona forest fire into an out-of-control inferno that trapped and killed 19 firefighters, nearly all of them members of an elite crew of “hotshots,”...
View ArticlePhotos: Follow a snow flake from Mt. Dana to the Pacific Ocean
After three years of low snowfall, tensions are soaring over the use and rights to California’s limited water supply.
View ArticleEl Niño storms of 1997-98 pummeled California
Scientists are predicting powerful El Niño conditions for this winter, storms possibly more powerful than the last big El Niño event in 1997-98. Floods, evacuations and landslides wreaked havoc up and...
View ArticleRep. Jackie Speier seeks disaster relief for Pacifica
Rep. Jackie Speier visited sites in Pacifica, Calif. which have been pummeled by El Niño-driven rains. The resultant erosion and pounding surf have damaged Pacifica Pier, and the sea wall along Beach...
View ArticleWhere We Live: Catching waves
The beauty of waves has drawn many to the edge of the sea, to watch as the energy gathered over a long ocean journey focuses into an explosion of water. To be inside a wave and see the form, the...
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