East Coast

Cameras inside the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery caught on video the massive blasts early June 21 from just yards away.

A massive fire and series of explosions rocked a South Philadelphia refinery complex, the largest on the East Coast, early Friday morning. The blast jolted people from their sleep and prompted a shelter-in-place.

Involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges have once again been dropped against the Amtrak engineer at the controls during a deadly 2015 derailment in Philadelphia.

Welcome to December! We’re in the grips of phase 1 of the nor’easter Sunday night. Snowfall has come on strong across southern New England and is inching to the north across southern Maine.

Athletes from around the globe are in Vermont for this weekend’s Women’s Audi FIS Ski World Cup races at Killington Resort—and 40,000 fans or more are expected to descend on Rutland County for the festivities. The racers will compete for points on the World Cup tour, and also for one-of-a-kind trophies crafted by the team at a company famous for...

The first place trophies weigh about eight pounds each and take about a half hour to make.

Ahead of this weekend’s Audi FIS Women’s Ski World Cup races at Vermont’s Killington Resort, top athletes had a chance Tuesday to practice on the race course. “It’s a pretty nice, interesting course — quite short, so it needs to be full gas from the start to the finish line,” observed Ana Bucik, a Slovenian ski racer.

The Women’s Ski World Cup races in Vermont have become a Thanksgiving weekend tradition.

Initial projections say there will be 11 named storms forming in Atlantic Ocean between June 1st and November 30th – with four of them becoming hurricanes and just two of those being classified as major.

Sugarbush, a Vermont ski resort that is one of the biggest on the East Coast, will join the portfolio of a Colorado-based resort group.

At least eight deaths have been blamed on a record-breaking cold spell that still had its grip on much of the country Wednesday morning, NBC News reported. More than 150 record-low temperatures were recorded from Texas to Maine, proving particularly punishing to areas that were enjoying relatively balmy temperatures in the days before. The National Weather Service said the cold...

Conservationists fear hundreds of koalas have perished in wildfires that have razed prime habitat on Australia’s east coast. Port Macquarie Koala Hospital President Sue Ashton said she hoped wildlife carers would be allowed to begin their search of the fire zone for survivors on Thursday. The fire was started by a lightning strike on Friday in a forest in New...

The U.S. Marine Corps has identified the troop under investigation in the death of an Emerson College student who succumbed last month to injuries he sustained in a fight in Boston. The Corps had previously said a Marine was under investigation in the death of Daniel Hollis but only gave the name, LCpl Samuel London, in a statement to WGBH...

Although Wednesday started as another day of clouds and drizzle with patchy fog, there are changes in the weather pattern we’ll notice in the days ahead. The storm in our nation’s mid-section dropping accumulating snow on Chicago will move northeast, with the counter-clockwise flow of air around it pulling a southerly wind up the East Coast, grabbing both warmth and...

We start our Saturday on the colder side of a front came through last night with a bit of rain, and once again some of our tallest mountains are coated with a little bit of snow to start our weekend. Today is the day to get outdoors and take it all in, as any early clouds clear out, we have...

The shutdown of one of the nation’s oldest nuclear power plants last year is having a surprising, stinging consequence for a New Jersey bay considered one of the nation’s most fragile.

Tropical Storm Nestor weakened considerably this weekend as it crossed the Southeast United States. Now, it’s just a remnant, weak storm center spinning south of New England. Nestor’s remnants came close enough to deliver some Sunday night and Monday morning showers to Southeast New England, but now it’s zipping east and no longer a concern here at...