The snow took a little more time to arrive this year, but one of the popular ski resorts around the Inland Northwest is opening for the season.

This story is part of The Disaster Economy, a Grist series exploring the often chaotic, lucrative world of disaster response and recovery. It was produced by Grist and co-published with Verite News, ...

Residents returned to typical daily activities today after Hurricane Melissa passed Bermuda as a Category 2 hurricane. More than 19,000 homes lost power overnight but officials said this morning that ...

Hurricane Melissa is expected to head towards Bermuda on Thursday. The storm is likely to produce heavy rainfall and hurricane conditions on the island. Melissa has already caused severe damage to ...

Hurricane Melissa is passing to the northwest of Bermuda on Thursday night after killing at least 40 people in the Caribbean. Bermuda is under a Hurricane Warning as the Category 2 storm passes nearby ...

Hurricane Melissa has caused extreme destruction and a rising death total across the Caribbean as the storm moves towards the Bahamas on Oct. 29. Relief efforts are ongoing. (There is a live cam of ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall near Chivirico, Cuba as a Category 3 storm early Wednesday morning. Over 700,000 residents are still in shelters after the hurricane hit the area. Melissa slammed New ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 storm before hitting Cuba as a Category 3. The storm caused at least one death in Jamaica and "total devastation" in western parts of the ...

The death toll from Hurricane Melissa is growing as the powerful storm moves across the Bahamas after leaving a trail of “catastrophic” destruction across Jamaica and parts of Cuba. Authorities in ...

Over the last 24 hours, Hurricane Melissa barreled across Jamaica before slamming into Cuba overnight, bringing damaging winds, flash flooding and landslides to both countries. The storm made landfall ...