Author: Christine Fernando, USA TODAY

The Canadian Hurricane Centre called Hurricane Fiona a “historic storm for eastern Canada” and a “potential landmark weather event.”

President Joe Biden on Thursday said he is committing the full force of the federal government to help Puerto Rico recover from Fiona.

Images and a video posted on social media by the Chicago Fire Department show extensive damage to the top floor of a four-story building.

As a historic heat wave hits the West, shattering records and straining California’s electricity grid, thousands were left without power Wednesday.

A 19-year-old student at a Portland, Oregon, college was killed and two others were injured after a brick column collapsed Monday.

A father and son were rescued Wednesday as they clung desperately to a cooler after their lobster boat sank into Boston Harbor.

The city council voted to temporarily disband its three-member police department and contract services with the county sheriff’s department instead.

The gas explosion happened Monday in Wyatt, a small southern Missouri city. Investigators pointed to propane gas as the likely cause.

Collin Hagan, 27, of Toivola, Michigan died as he helped fight the Big Swamp fire near Oakridge, Oregon in the Willamette National Forest.