New Orleans Scrambles to Repair Drainage System After Severe Flooding

By KATY RECKDAHL August 11, 2017 NEW ORLEANS — With rain threatening, work crews scrambled on Friday to repair New Orleans’s pumping and drainage network in the hopes of preventing a repeat of last weekend, when flooding inundated many...

Hurricane Season, Already Busy, May Get Even Busier

By HENRY FOUNTAIN August 9, 2017 Government forecasters said Wednesday that the Atlantic hurricane season, already a busy one, may be the busiest since 2010 and is likely to produce two to five major hurricanes. “There’s a possibility that the...

Wildfire Smoke From Canada Drapes Pacific Northwest in a Haze

By ALAN BLINDER and CHRISTINA CARON August 7, 2017 SEATTLE — Mount Rainier is invisible from this city. The Blue Angels, the Navy’s elite flight demonstration team, flew two weekend shows in chalky, smoky air. Government officials have...

Blistering Heat Wave Threatens Seattle, Where Only a Third Have Air-Conditioning

By MAGGIE ASTOR August 1, 2017 Much of the country is used to occasional 100-degree days. Seattle, which has had just three in the past 123 years, is not. So unaccustomed is Seattle to scorching heat that, in 2015, only one-third of the housing units in its...

Flash Floods in Arizona Kill at Least 9

By JONAH ENGEL BROMWICH July 16, 2017 At least nine people were killed and one person was still missing on Sunday night after flash flooding interrupted a family gathering in central Arizona over the weekend. The Gila County Sheriff’s Office said...