Topic: Hurricane Florence

In many disaster- and outage-prone areas, people are starting to ask whether investing in rooftop solar and battery storage systems can keep the lights on and the air conditioner running when the power grid can't.

The rings of stately pines in North and South Carolina offer telling long-term evidence of climate change and a forecast for the future -- the last 300 years have gotten wetter, making hurricanes ever more dangerous.

Dorian's eyewall approached North Carolina's Cape Fear on Thursday evening, as the storm left nearly 250,000 people in the Carolinas without power.

After brushing past the Northeast, Hurricane Dorian is expected to make landfall in Atlantic Canada late Saturday or Saturday night, just about two weeks after the storm sprung to life in the Caribbean.

Storms are getting bigger and floods are getting worse as a result of climate change, according to a historic 120-year-old data set.

All four military branches of the U.S. Department of Defense put together a joint Tenant Bill of Rights for service members and their families.

The Marine Corps and Navy have issued directives to fix problems with on- and off-base housing in the wake of reports of poor conditions at all military branches.

Two correctional officers will be charged after two mental health patients drowned in a transport van while being driven into floodwaters in South Carolina.

U.S. House Republicans on Monday unveiled a tax bill they plan to seek passage during the lame-duck session of Congress this week.

The U.S. economy added 250,000 jobs in October and the unemployment rate remains historically low, the U.S. Labor Department said Friday.