Hurricane Melissa’s death toll climbed to 46 on Friday, Oct. 31, days after the record-breaking storm barreled through the Caribbean and left behind a wake of destruction. The death toll in Jamaica ...

Hurricane Gabrielle rapidly intensified from a Category 1 to a Category 4 storm on Monday. Rapid intensification is when a storm's winds increase by at least 34.5 mph in 24 hours. Experts say this ...

Two decades after Hurricane Rita struck southwest Louisiana, one of its enduring impacts is how the region prepares for and responds to disasters, having paved the way for stricter building standards ...

FOLKSTON, Ga. (AP) — A South Korean charter plane arrived in Atlanta on Wednesday to take home Korean workers detained in an immigration raid in Georgia last week. Its planned return the same day was ...

Nicole J. Moncrief was caring for her wheelchair-bound mother and her two nieces as Hurricane Rita barreled toward their Lake Charles home 20 years ago. Ahead of previous storms, none of which caused ...

Twin sources of warm, moist air will keep San Diego County hot and muggy Thursday, thwarting forecasters who had thought temperatures were about to turn cooler. The Gulf of California will continue to ...

Editor's note: Follow USA TODAY's updates about Hurricane Kiko for Friday, Sept. 5. Hurricane Kiko is spinning over the Pacific Ocean as a major Category 4 storm on Sept. 4. In an 11 a.m. ET update, ...

Scattered showers and storms will continue through this evening, and they may persist through midnight near the lakeshore. A few waterspouts are possible on Lake Erie tonight, and we’ll have lows ...

CALCASIEU PARISH, La. (KLFY) — Today marks the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Laura, the 10th strongest hurricane to hit the United States, devastated Southwest Louisiana in 2020. Hurricane Laura made ...

HOLLY BEACH, La. (KPLC) - As we look back on Hurricane Laura, it’s hard not to think of other storms - Rita, Ike, and Delta. One Cameron couple, fishermen by trade, has gone through them all in Holly ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Five years ago, Hurricane Laura changed the landscape of Southwest Louisiana. The storm made landfall in Cameron around 1 a.m. on Aug. 27, 2020. It was the strongest ...

While we're looking back at the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina this week, many other destructive hurricanes have hammered the U.S. during the last two weeks of August. On Aug. 27, 2020, five years ...