WYOMING, Iowa — Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn…
Natural disasters
Weeks after floods, Vermont businesses struggling to get visitors to return
BURKE, Vt. — BURKE, Vt. (AP) — Two bouts of flooding from storms in July has…
Evacuation ordered in northern Japan, flights and trains canceled in Tokyo as a typhoon approaches
TOKYO — Thousands of people in northern Japan were ordered to evacuate Friday because of the…
Wildfires are growing under climate change, and their smoke threatens farmworkers, study says
LOS ANGELES — As wildfires scorched swaths of land in the wine country of Sonoma County…
Protecting against floods, or a government-mandated retreat from the shore? New Jersey rules debated
TOMS RIVER, N.J. — New Jersey officials are defending proposed building rules designed to limit damage…
New Mexico village battered by wildfires in June now digging out from another round of flooding
RUIDOSO, N.M. — A southern New Mexico village that was ravaged by wildfires in June and…
Vermont farmers take stock after losing crops to flooding two years in a row
BARNET, Vt. — Exactly one year to the date of last year’s severe flooding in Vermont,…