The number of auto thefts in the city have fallen close to normal levels after spiking last summer, a Banner analysis of police crime data found.

Stormy weather. COVID. Political snafus. When it comes to Artscape, there always seems to be something putting a damper on things.

Four children under the age of 5 died of overdoses in Baltimore in 2023 — the smallest and least suspecting victims in an epidemic that remains unrivaled across major American cities.

Nathaniel Jordan, who was 55 when he died in Baltimore's Dorchester neighborhood, best exemplifies the tragic cross section of the most common ages, races, ethnicities, genders and neighborhoods of those who died in Baltimore’s opioid epidemic.

New Year’s Day has been the deadliest day of the year for overdoses, a Banner analysis of a decade of autopsy data found, reflecting a pattern in Baltimore, which is experiencing the worst overdose epidemic of any major American city in American history.

Campaign spending data shows that Republican ad dollars rule on the platform formerly known as Twitter, the opposite of the largest platforms.

Super PACs funded by the cryptocurrency industry have spent more than $130 million in one of the largest — and least obvious — efforts to influence the 2024 race.

The Valley of the Sun has seen temperatures of 110 degrees or above for nearly a month now, and AccuWeather forecasters now say this could make it the most intense heat wave the city has experienced since records began.

Authorities said she had left the toddler in the car after taking the other children she was babysitting inside. This is the 14th child to die in a hot car nationwide and the sixth in Florida this year.

With surface temperatures in the 90s in some areas off South Florida's coast, AccuWeather forecasters warn that the marine heat wave is practically "inviting" a large system to hit the state.

“This is not a milestone we should be celebrating,” one scientist said. Four consecutive days this week either shattered or tied the record for the world’s highest global average temperature. Experts explain why the record may fall again and again.

This Fourth of July, guests at Mammoth Mountain celebrated the summer holiday on the slopes after the resort recorded over 700 inches of snow throughout an incredibly stormy winter.

It can be brutal and often dangerous work that’s not for the faint of heart. Enter theses women, who are showing what it takes to track some of the most severe weather on the planet.

When history is not always written in stone and the impacts of enslavement and segregation are apparent even in cemeteries, weather events from local floods to hurricanes are detrimental to both the dead and the living.

Communities in Louisiana are still picking up the pieces one year following Ida's landfall, including one along the infamous Cancer Alley that's fighting to keep its residents out of a "vulnerable position" for future hurricanes.

The superstorm hit nearly a decade ago and some of the victims who have still not been able to get back in their homes now face losing them altogether as a crucial deadline passed this week.

Matt Rusinski said the damage to his home in Toms River after the storm was “horrific.” What followed was the tedious task of rebuilding — twice. Ten years later, he still owes money the state had previously approved.

The frail water system of Mississippi's capital buckled under the strain of longstanding issues and recent flooding of the Pearl River, and now over 150,000 people are left without drinkable running water for an "undetermined amount of time," officials said.

As an extreme weather event stampeded across South Dakota Thursday evening, images that emerged on social media called to mind the 1930s Dust Bowl era.

A year after the storm caused immense death and catastrophic damage throughout its 1,000-mile path, the name Ida will never again be used in hurricane seasons.

Not only did the storm cause mass destruction in Florida and Louisiana, it also prompted changes by federal and local governments that remain in place 30 years later.

Jennifer Smith was just getting started on home repairs caused by a hurricane when another storm hit. About two weeks after her home was finally livable again, another disaster struck.

While they have studied different branches of STEM, these scientists share what pushes progress in their fields forward.

The missing piece is simple — and cuts to the core of humanity, down to the basic need to be and be accepted.

“We have folks here from all walks of life and the common denominator is the color of their skin.” Some are working tirelessly to prevent them from becoming faceless names.

Two islands have quickly been yielding to the sea, and two Indigenous tribes are responding and adapting to a situation that other areas along the U.S. seaboard may soon face.

One of the American West's oldest newspapers is making a monumental change meant to depict the dire state of an iconic body of water -- and to show that there's still time to turn the crisis around.

“Time and time again,” assessments have pointed to a lack of information in Spanish having contributed to casualties amid disastrous weather events. Now, some meteorologists are going beyond just translating the forecast.

It’s no surprise that weather catastrophes take a toll on the U.S. as the climate changes, but even subtle changes in weather have been slowly chipping away at infrastructure.

The residents who weathered Hurricane Dorian and the destruction that followed were just getting back on their feet when a storm of another kind hit — and it hasn’t let up.

Even though they were taken decades ago, the photos looked all-too-familiar to what was seen during the summer of 2020. Another similarity: It caught local officials off guard. “It was certainly epidemic levels.”

Just miles from the rapidly-deteriorating summit of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, a geologist transmitted his famous last words while a photographer snapped iconic images.

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

Like many other Oregonians, the Corona family was trying to find a home before the holidays after a wildfire decimated affordable housing in the area.

The NTSB released an “investigative update” Friday on the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash, revealing new details in the crash that killed nine people.

Mother Nature delivered a belated Christmas gift to New Smyrna Beach, Florida, on Dec. 26, with residents gathering to see the metal behemoth that washed ashore.

A few months following the devastating storm, scientists estimated the storm’s wind intensity was an additional 5 mph than previously stated — just enough to push Michael into the next category.

On Sunday morning, the National Weather Service office in Great Falls, Montana, caught not rain or birds on the radar, but a phenomenon called “gravity waves.”

The falls are one of the seven natural wonders of the world, but jaw-dropping photos show the toll months of drought have taken on the iconic tourist attraction known as “the smoke that thunders.”

Depending on where you live, you may want to put up your holiday decorations early.