A powerful winter storm is blasting the Northwest with heavy snow and fierce winds, as residents are warned to stay off the roads.

Valentine's Day could bring a dazzling display of the northern lights for stargazers in some parts of the U.S.

You won't find any smoke shacks listed on a trail map, but they're there. Across the Rocky Mountain West, fort building ...

Republicans have been winning an asymmetric war over district lines for decades. To preserve democracy, their opponents will ...

Fire spotters used to watch with binoculars from forest towers. Now, technology can help forecast fire behavior, but human experience is still essential.

Moving the agencies of the federal government out of Washington may play well with conservatives, but it will not help shrink ...

Americans in more than a dozen northern U.S. states may be able to catch a glimpse of the northern lights Sunday evening, as ...

National Weather Service meteorologists warned of temperatures cold enough to be fatal descending across most of the nation.

USA TODAY analysis finds 3.3 million Americans live in areas with "very high" wildfire risk and 14.8 million more at ...

The system was motivated by the Great Fire of 1910 that burned three million acres in Washington, Idaho and Montana and killed 87 people ... They can detect heat signatures, map fire perimeters and ...

The High Plains once again missed out on the precipitation that moved through the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic parts of the U.S. Western Nebraska and Kansas saw degradation as the lack of precipitation ...

Hood, and Bachelor maintain excellent coverage, with some spillover to inland areas like Idaho’s panhandle and western ...