Weatherhood B.C.

Thousands of homes in Northern California wine country and central Oregon were under evacuation orders and warnings Sunday as firefighting crews battled wildfires in dry, hot weather .

The Fraser Valley Regional District has issued an evacuation alert for properties near a wildfire between Yale and Spuzzum, B.C., while smoke from the blaze has spurred an air quality warning for the province's eastern Fraser Valley.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina changed the face of education in New Orleans forever. The school system was utterly destroyed and then utterly transformed, becoming the first and only all-charter school district in the country.

PORT ALBERNI — BC Hydro says crews have restored power for more than 500 customers in Bamfield on Vancouver Island after a wildfire caused extensive damage to infrastructure outside Port Alberni.

Sometimes it happens without any more warning than the sound of cracking.

PORT ALBERNI — A wildfire near Port Alberni, B.C., that spurred evacuations and a state of local emergency last week has been downgraded again, leaving the province without any wildfires of note.

RODANTHE, N.C. (AP) — Strong winds and waves battered Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard and dangerous rip currents threatened from the Carolinas to New England as Hurricane Erin made its way farther out to sea.

A powerful storm tracking up the Atlantic Ocean risks disrupting firefighting efforts in Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia, but officials in both provinces say they are prepared.

When floodwaters rushed through a girl's summer camp nestled in the Texas Hill Country , Michael McCown's 8-year-old daughter was among 27 campers and counselors swept to their deaths.

TORONTO — The World Health Organization says climate change-driven heat is a "public health crisis" for workers around the globe and experts say Canada is no exception.