Utah’s wide-open country, like much of the plains and the West, was bison range for millennia. It sustained not only these ...

Out west, the Rocky Mountains play a major role in winter weather across North America. But do the Smokies do the same for ...

U.S. grid regulators warned that North America’s electric power system is not expanding fast enough to meet rising demand, ...

Goetze: An interesting tree of our Rolling Plains region is native to Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma and has close relatives ...

More than 160 million people across the United States are expected to face winter weather hazards that could cripple their ...

The volcanic system beneath Yellowstone National Park is one of the few places on Earth capable of an eruption so large it ...

The Great Blizzard of 1888 The Great Blizzard of March 1888 paralyzed the East Coast from Chesapeake Bay to Maine, with ...

An unusually brutal winter storm is set to pummel more than 160 million Americans from Friday, as a stretched "polar vortex" sends a devastating blast of Arctic air, bringing heavy snows and freezing ...

Temperatures near or below 0 degrees Fahrenheit are set to grip the eastern third of the country this week, with wind chill ...

For this installment of "From the Archives," we answer questions about the Balcones Escarpment and the Balcones Fault ...

The storm will usher in frigid temperatures and spread heavy snow and ice across a 2,000-mile stretch of the country.

Farther east, the Plains served as the transition zone between mild, dry weather in the West and increasingly cold conditions ...