Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but ...

Gray whales, a signature of the Washington coast, are dying by the thousands, victims of declines in Arctic sea ice.

After the polar vortex made its most dreadful and intense appearance in New York City this past winter, spring is finally in ...

A former member of the Washington Post editorial board accused a colleague of robbing him of his humanity and confessed to going to HR over a line in an editorial he disagreed with, according to a ...

Don't put away those winter coats just yet. An April cold snap is forecast for much of the eastern half of the U.S. early next week, forecasters said, with freezes likely across portions of the ...

by Denise Whitaker, KOMO News Reporter TOPICS: SEATTLE — There is a bill moving through the Washington state Legislature that would raise the cap on property taxes from 1% to 3%. The Association ...

A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation shows the vortex also moved away from the Arctic towards Europe.

"The large polar vortex disruption from the second week of March is playing a key role in next week’s eastern US cold snap," meteorologist Judah Cohen of Atmospheric and Environmental Research told ...

An April cold snap is expected to bring unusually cold temperatures to the eastern half of the US next week. The cold snap could impact new spring vegetation and lead to frost in some areas.

The Polar Vortex in the upper atmosphere has disintegrated ... are expected to spread throughout Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C. The Arctic cold blast is expected to intensify and cover ...

It’s tough to trudge through a Canadian winter without hearing about the polar vortex, that circulation surrounding the Arctic that occasionally sends bouts of frigid temperatures surging southward.