Today in History for Dec. 19: In 1813, fur trader James McGill died in Montreal, leaving 10,000 pounds to establish the university that would bear his name.

Hurricane Melissa tore a path of destruction across Jamaica. Hurricane Melissa tore a path of destruction across Jamaica after the storm made landfall on Tuesday as a Category 5 hurricane, one of the ...

Bertha Boykin Todd, a Wilmington educator and civil rights activist, has died at the age of 96. Todd spent 39 years as an educator in New Hanover County Schools during segregation and desegregation.

(NEXSTAR) — It’s been a busy few weeks on the sun, and yet another eruption of material has been blasted out into space. If conditions are right, it could spark strong G3 geomagnetic storm levels on ...

Whether snow falls in major cities Tuesday will depend on the nor’easter’s path. By Jin Yu Young Nazaneen Ghaffar and Judson Jones A significant winter storm is set to bring heavy snowfall to a large ...

A new, quick-hitting winter storm is piling onto travel woes and shoveling duties Monday in parts of the central US that were buried over the weekend, but its next chapter could be its most notable. A ...

The solar maximum may be over, but the sun has still been busy with activity. A powerful solar eruption is expected to hit Earth soon, according to a forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

A 45-car pileup in Indiana and a Delta jet's skidding off the runway in Iowa are among the travel disasters stemming from a powerful winter storm taking aim at the heart of the country on one of the ...

• A fast-moving winter storm dumped several inches of snow across parts of the Midwest where it killed one driver, caused hundreds of crashes and slowed travel to a crawl. It delivered the first ...

While parts of the Northeast are seeing accumulating snow, New York City is dealing only with cold rain and low clouds Tuesday. Temperatures hovered around 40 degrees in Manhattan, where gray skies ...

Forecasters say the first snow storm of the season to take aim at major Northeast cities will dump several inches of snow over the weekend, followed by a bitter Arctic blast courtesy of the polar ...