HOUGHTON — An early winter storm hit the Copper Country Sunday. After a snowless November, several inches of snow hit the Keweenaw starting Sunday afternoon. Cold Arctic air moved south over the still-warm area of Lake Superior, causing the lake effect storm, said Evan Kutta, ...

LANSING, MICH. — With winter weather rapidly approaching, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has declared Nov. 5-11 is Winter Hazards Awareness Week, and the Michigan State Police, Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division is encouraging Michiganders to make winter emergency preparedness a ...

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. — Emergency crews in suburban Philadelphia intensified their search Monday for a missing 9-month-old boy and his 2-year-old sister who were swept away in a family car when torrential rains flooded a roadway. While the East ...

The planet’s temperature spiked on Tuesday to its hottest day in at least 44 years and likely much longer, and Wednesday could become the third straight day Earth unofficially marks a record-breaking high, the latest in a series of climate-change extremes that alarm but don’t surprise ...

Michigan EGLE has issued an air quality alert for the Upper Peninsula through Thursday night. The department advises residents to limit prolonged or heavy exertion especially for sensitive groups. Additional recommendations from EGLE include: • Reduce or eliminate activities that ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Wildfire smoke from Canada promoted officials on Tuesday to issue a record 23rd air quality alert for much of Minnesota through late Wednesday night as smoky skies obscure the Minneapolis and St. Paul skylines. Smoke from wildfires in Ontario and Quebec moved into ...