Homes and streets are flooded in parts of the Chicago area on Tuesday evening after storms brought heavy downpours to the city and suburbs. Heavy rain moved into the Chicago metro area between 2 and 4 ...

Fire crews continue working to contain the Lightning Creek Fire, which has burned 2,427 acres about nine miles north of Clark ...

Lightning strikes kill millions of trees each year — but it turns out that some large tropical trees can not only survive a strike, but also benefit from its effects, according to a recent study.