Florida keeps packing people and buildings on barrier islands. It comes at a high cost.

Barrier islands are Florida’s postcard paradises. And developers keep building on them and people keep moving to them in a ...
Durham Herald SunOpinion

Disaster planning should account for the emergency that’s already here — the opioid epidemic| Opinion

After Helene, barriers to OUD care in Boone exposed how regulations and infrastructure failures interrupt treatment; reforms ...
Reason

Taxpayers Still Paying for Hurricane Sandy Relief Mismanagement 13 Years Later, New Report Finds

In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy made landfall near Atlantic City, New Jersey. The storm would bring severe flooding to the East Coast—particularly New Jersey and New York City—and go down as the ...
The News-Press

National Hurricane Center tracking 1 tropical wave as time change brings calm

Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest Atlantic storms on record, has been blamed for at least 60 deaths. The tropical Atlantic was quiet as of early November, with no new tropical cyclones expected ...
USA Today

Where is Hurricane Melissa headed? Track storm's path as it's set to weaken

Hurricane Melissa's reign of terror over the Caribbean appears to be coming to an end. The National Hurricane Center said in its 5 a.m. ET advisory on Oct. 31 Melissa ...
fox43

Where is Hurricane Melissa? Track the storm

WASHINGTON — Hurricane Melissa made landfall in south-western Jamaica early Tuesday afternoon, packing winds of 185 mph. It was the strongest hurricane to make landfall on the island since ...