Roads vanish. Driveways transform into dunes. Front doors disappear behind drifting sand. Why would anyone build a home there in the first place?

A brutal combination of a widespread drought and a mostly absent winter pushed the average annual U.S. temperature last year up to 55.32 degrees Fahrenheit.

A storm-weakened tree crashed down on a house, killing a sleeping 8-year-old girl, as an unusually fierce winter storm blew through California over the weekend, leaving thousands without power Monday after dumping much-needed rain on the parched state.

Hydrologists hiked a half-mile into the Mount Hood National Forest on snowshoes to measure the snowpack Thursday.

A lack of snow is not stopping people from hitting the slopes, but most say they'd like to see more fresh snow.

Kathy Lanpher was showing a property to a client when she heard the improbable, gut-wrenching news: A wildfire like the one that destroyed her home four months ago was threatening the nearby subdivision where she had relocated.

The drought that has turned Texas and parts of the Plains into a parched moonscape of cracked earth could persist into next year, prolonging the misery of farmers and ranchers who have endured a dry spell that is now expected to be the state's worst since the 1950s.

An enormous wildfire in eastern Arizona is poised to become the largest in state history, as firefighters on Tuesday tried to keep the blaze from crossing into New Mexico and devouring a small mountain town.

Oregon's damp spring delayed the local wildland fire season, freeing up state firefighters to battle fires in other states.