When the polar vortex begins to wobble and allows arctic air to spill south into northern Illinois in January, we usually end up with dangerously-cold air around Chicago. When it happens in April ...

Anchorage officials want to build 10,000 new homes in the next 10 years, amid a housing crunch and rising concerns about people living unhoused in the city. The initiative comes as housing prices ...

Star’s owner, Albert Whitehead, told Alaska Public Media that the reindeer was found wandering the streets of Anchorage after likely following the intruder from the stall. When he reviewed ...

The Adventures of Tortoise and Hare: The Next Gen takes the beloved characters we know and love, Tortoise and Hare, and imagines their lives 10 years after the original race. Now with children of ...

April 7 (UPI) --Sanitation officials in Anchorage, Alaska, put their bear-resistant trash bins to the test with the help of some product testing experts: the Alaska Zoo's bears. Anchorage Solid ...

Don't put away those winter coats just yet. An April cold snap is forecast for much of the eastern half of the U.S. early next week, forecasters said, with freezes likely across portions of the ...

A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation shows the vortex also moved away from the Arctic towards Europe.

"The large polar vortex disruption from the second week of March is playing a key role in next week’s eastern US cold snap," meteorologist Judah Cohen of Atmospheric and Environmental Research told ...

An April cold snap is expected to bring unusually cold temperatures to the eastern half of the US next week. The cold snap could impact new spring vegetation and lead to frost in some areas.

The Polar Vortex in the upper atmosphere has disintegrated after the intense warming of the stratosphere in mid-March. Currently, its remains are traveling eastward across Canada to the United States.

It’s tough to trudge through a Canadian winter without hearing about the polar vortex, that circulation surrounding the Arctic that occasionally sends bouts of frigid temperatures surging southward.

Fatal storms swept across the U.S., leaving behind damaged homes and devastation for residents in the affected states to clean up. After a week when states across the South were bombarded with ...