Travelers wait in line to board Amtrak's Northeast Regional train to Boston at Union Station in Washington, Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) Travelers wait in line to board Amtrak's ...

Hurricane Irene has weakened to a Category 1 storm as it nears the North Carolina coast but forecasters say it remains extremely dangerous. Hurricane warnings were issued from North Carolina to New ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. -- The full measure of Hurricane Irene's fury came into focus Monday as the death toll jumped to 38, New England towns battled epic floods and millions faced the dispiriting prospect ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. -- New England towns battled floods of historic proportions, utility crews struggled to restore power to 5 million people along the East Coast, and big-city commuters coped with ...

Want to see what a major hurricane looks like chewing through a nation of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets? NASA’s TRMM satellite has the goods, displaying Hurricane Irene—white tendrils of ...

Hurricane Irene hit Long Beach, N.Y., during high tide, causing several feet of flooding in some areas. Elaine Quijano reports on the latest of the conditions in the aftermath of Irene. President ...

QUECHEE, Vermont (Reuters) - When Hurricane Irene's torrential rains transformed the sleepy Ottauquechee River into a roaring wall of gray-green water a year ago, the Simon Pearce glass and pottery ...

This weekend brought Hurricane Irene across the Eastern seaboard, and while the storm’s force did not reach what many had expected, numerous evacuations and severe flooding was still present, leaving ...

Update as of 12:03 p.m., ET, Aug. 28: Irene has been downgraded to a tropical storm and is heading into New England. CNN reports over 3 million people in 5 states without power and, sadly, at least 12 ...

Hurricane Irene’s cone of uncertainty is getting downright scary. The Category 3 hurricane has already slammed the Bahamas, and the latest forecasts have the storm missing Florida but running into the ...

At the time, the storm was known as the costliest Category One hurricane on record, contributing to more than $15 billion of damage nationwide, $53 million of that in North Carolina.