State officials recently expanded a drought watch advisory to include 50 Virginia counties and 23 cities. Locally, ...

Members of the Fairfax County Fire Rescue Department are working with a Virginia Task Force to assist with cleanup efforts in Jamaica following Hurricane Melissa. The task force released photos Monday ...

Charles McLeod, a founder of VCU’s first Black student organization, who is seen speaking at the 1969 Moratorium to End the ...

The Virginia Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue team is returning home on Monday after spending close to two weeks in Jamaica following the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa. The Virginia Task Force 1 ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s government said Tuesday that the death toll from Hurricane Melissa rose to 43, with 13 others still missing. Crews were still trying to reach people in the country ...

Hurricane Rafael strengthened to a major Category 3 hurricane as it neared the coast of Cuba on Wednesday afternoon. Rafael is expected to bring life-threatening storm surge, hurricane-force winds and ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Hurricane Melissa intensified into a Category 5 storm Monday as it drew closer to Jamaica, where forecasters expected it to unleash catastrophic flooding, landslides and widespread ...

Hurricane Melissa, a catastrophic Category 5 storm with sustained winds of 185 mph, made landfall in southwestern Jamaica on Oct. 28, 2025, destroying homes, severely damaging critical infrastructure ...

In August, 2005, Anand Irimpen, a cardiologist and a professor at Tulane University, evacuated New Orleans during the approach of Hurricane Katrina. He and his family watched it make landfall from a ...