Super Typhoon Mawar Passes over Guam as Category 4 Storm May 25, 2023 By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher HONOLULU (AP) – Typhoon Mawar barreled into Guam as a powerful Category 4 storm Wednesday, pummeling the U.S. Pacific territory...
California Storm Blackouts Plunge Silicon Valley into Darkness March 15, 2023 By David R. Baker Utility workers raced to restore power to parts of central California, after the latest atmospheric river struck the state with...
Emergency Lifted After New Zealand Storm Less than Feared February 2, 2023 By Nick Perry WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s Northland region lifted a state of emergency declaration Wednesday after an overnight storm...
Hurricane Ian Gains Strength as It Roars Toward Cuba and Florida September 26, 2022 By Brian K. Sullivan and Brian Wingfield Hurricane Ian is expected to build power as it nears western Cuba later Monday and menace Florida’s west coast, where...
Emergency Declaration for Multiple Wildfires in New Mexico April 26, 2022 SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed emergency declarations as 20 wildfires continued to...
Wildfires Smolder Across Dry, Drought-Stricken Southwest June 11, 2021 By Terry Tang A wildfire in Arizona that had neighboring New Mexico breathing in smoke was one of several blazes scorching the drought-stricken...
Firefighters Battling Wildfires in Arizona and New Mexico April 28, 2021 KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) — Mohave County authorities have issued an emergency declaration after a wildfire near Kingman prompted the evacuation...
Kansas County Chooses Not to Observe Covid ‘Emergency’ March 18, 2021 By Dion Lefler and Michael Stavola SEDAN, Kan. (AP) — Greetings from Chautauqua, the only county in Kansas where COVID-19 isn’t an emergency. This bucolic and...
Trump Approves Emergency Aid For Iowa After Storm August 17, 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he approved federal disaster aid for Iowa after a hurricane-force storm hit last...
Emergency Declared on Quake-Hit Greek Island January 28, 2014 Schools were ordered closed and a state of emergency was declared on the Greek island of Kefalonia on Monday after...