To many, atmospheric rivers are a West Coast phenomenon. But they’re also responsible for the devastating flooding that hit ...

SACRAMENTO –Governor Gavin Newsom and First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom announced the official launch of efforts to celebrate California’s 175th year of statehood, March 31. The announcement ...

Vintage souvenir colorized photo postcard published ca 1942 as part of the 'Cowboy and Indian Life of the Great West' series (Getty Images) In early January 1837 ... From his ranch in Oregon’s ...

Civil War veteran Charles Raymond was 27 when he accepted an assignment to visit the new U.S. territory of Alaska, a place so far away from his home in New York City he couldn’t imagine it. Two ...

A kayaker who was reported missing after going over a waterfall along the Willamette River south of Portland, Oregon, last week has been identified as a 20-year-old California resident ...

Most atmospheric rivers are weak and do not cause damage. They can provide much-needed rain or snow. Sometimes they do both. In drought-stricken California, such storms have triggered mudslides, ...

“Early in the season, maybe I had the mindset that ‘Yes, I signed the big contract and now I have to do more, instead of just being me,’” he said during Friday’s season-ending media ...

The so-called atmospheric river storm was pulling in a long and wide plume of moisture from the Pacific Ocean. Flooding and rock slides closed portions of roads across Northern California.

(CNN) — An exceptionally powerful atmospheric river fueled the deadly early April flooding disaster in the central and southern United States — a historic flood event and a poignant example of ...

While the upcoming rain may not be quite as extreme or as long-lasting as early April ... Illinois and southwestern Indiana. An atmospheric river sourcing moisture out of the western Gulf ...