A wildfire whipped up by extreme winds is sweeping through a Los Angeles hillside dotted with celebrity residences. Homes have burned and tens of thousands of people are under evacuation orders, some of whom abandoned cars and fled on foot due to clogged roads.

The world lost a great folk singer last week. Peter Yarrow is best known for his work with Peter Paul and Mary, but he had a special connection to Newtown, Connecticut. Two months after the ...

I was reminded of one of Peter Yarrow’s most important contributions, which was not included in his obituary [“Peter Yarrow, 86, of Peter, Paul and Mary,” Jan. 8]. In 1999, he co-founded ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A huge swath of the U.S. was blasted with ice, snow and wind on Monday as the polar vortex that dipped south over the weekend kept much of the country east of the Rockies ...

DENVER — A powerful arctic cold front arrived in Colorado on Friday and will keep the state very cold until Wednesday. The temperature could be below freezing for at least 114 consecutive hours ...

A polar vortex dipping down from Siberia will bring a cold front with frigid temperatures to nearly 300 million Americans. See maps of the arctic blast.