Parts of the country remain under cold weather advisories and freezing warnings today, as the NWS warns of dangerous wind chills.

The Trump administration’s mass-deportation offensive expanded into Los Angeles Saturday with pre-dawn roundups, part of a West Coast operation expected to run seven days a week, sources told The

The definition: An atmospheric river (AR) is a long plume of moisture that stretches from the tropics or subtropics into higher latitudes, often thousands of miles long. These thin ribbons of humid air can be identified and tracked in satellite imagery and computer model forecasts.

A large swath of what had long been private land on Northern California’s Lost Coast is now slated for public access. The 5-square-mile parcel called Lost Coast Redwoods was acquired this month by the Bureau of Land Management, three years after Save the Redwoods League bought the land from the parent of timber company Soper Wheeler.

A miles-long cluster of dolphins has been filmed leaping and gliding across Carmel Bay off the central coast of California, forming an unusual "super pod" of more than 1,500 of the marine creatures.

The Department of Defense last month issued a small contract for a Navy project to develop and provide a modular energy storage system for its newest vessels including its all-electric DDG-1000 class of surface combatants.

Experts say that while it has been quiet after Monday's quake, the risk of one or more aftershocks is not out of the question.

A 3.8-magnitude earthquake centered near the Maine coast rattled houses in northern New England on Monday and was felt by surprised residents of states hundreds of miles away.

A 4.1 magnitude earthquake shook Maine on Monday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake was reported at a depth of 20 km and centered 13 km southeast of York Harbor. People reported feeling shaking across York and Cumberland counties and in the Boothbay Harbor region.

The West Coast may soon face an invasion of a destructive pest that decimates forests and lowers property values.

The historic increase of homelessness reported by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2024 was largely the result of tens of thousands of immigrants arriving in a handful of states,

“Despite being smack in the middle of the rainy season, brush conditions over Southern California are currently as dry as they ever get in the summer (the dry season),” AccuWeather California Expert Ken Clark said. “So when you throw dry air and Santa Ana winds into the mix, you have prime ingredients for wildfires.”