The 1995 Chicago heat wave is the most notorious and deadly of the city's hot spells, and in fact the deadliest weather event in the city's history. With the Midwest again trapped under a heat dome, ...

Welcome to summer travel season, also known as book-that-early-flight season. Experts always suggest the earliest flight of the day as your best shot for avoiding delays. But in the summer months, ...

WASHINGTON, N.C. (WITN) - The Washington Summer Festival kicked off at 4 p.m. Friday with residents enjoying food, rides, and entertainment despite extreme temperatures. The 43rd annual festival packs ...

ATLANTA, Georgia — As summer heat builds across Georgia, it's a good time to remember how quickly temperatures can rise inside a parked vehicle. On this day in 1995, a series of tragic incidents ...

The tale may well have been told at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. But a significant portion of the story of America’s dominance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This picture shows the silhouette of a girl performing yoga on the rocky crest of the Ancient Observatory Kokino on the fifth ...

There hasn’t been a lot of great news in the classical music world of late. The Metropolitan Opera is in grim financial straits. President Donald Trump has run the Kennedy Center into the ground and ...

WASHINGTON, N.C. (WITN) - The 43rd Annual Washington Summer Festival returns to the waterfront this weekend. The family-friendly festival includes a street fair, kid’s events, rides, free outdoor ...

The first day of summer is nearly here. The summer solstice marks the official start of the season in the Northern Hemisphere — and the longest day of the year. It occurs when “the sun, as seen from ...

Saturday will come with a steady increase in clouds and a chance for some scattered storms after sunset and into the overnight hours. Rain chances will peak at barely 30% from 9 p.m. Saturday until 7 ...

Last year packed a wallop for Washington's mountains. Six months after historic flooding from a series of atmospheric rivers and windstorms — and on the heels of major fires in both the Olympics and ...

If you want to see someone’s head explode, tell a parent who barely survived Maycember to give their kids a ‘90s summer. “Have an ‘unscheduled’ summer!” they say. “No need for camp!” they say. “Let ...