More rain and snow fell during the weekend in storm-battered California, making travel dangerous and prompting new evacuation orders over flooding concerns along a swollen river near Sacramento.

Gas stoves, long beloved by cooks, have begun to seem like kitchen pariahs in recent weeks.

Several groups have flocked to the waterway off Manhattan in search of treasure.

As a deadly storm system that spawned tornadoes across parts of the U.S. South, Zakiya Sankara-Jabar’s cellphone buzzed relentlessly.

To the scores of sheriffs in Illinois who reportedly have sworn not to enforce the ban on semiautomatic weapons that took effect this week, the governor has a succinct answer: Yes, you will.

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs wants to undo a massive expansion of a school voucher program passed last year by Republicans that lets students apply to use public money to attend private schools and other education costs.

A Montana man who authorities say entered the U.S. Capitol with his juvenile son during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot has been charged with misdemeanor crimes.

A bipartisan review panel says Georgia’s most populous county has had significant problems in recent elections but has also shown considerable improvement.

Nationally, many more people are still dying from COVID — about 36,000 since early October — than from the flu — estimated at about 14,000 over the same period.

A U.S. Navy destroyer is going to bear the name of a Medal of Honor recipient from Massachusetts who fought in Vietnam.