AVALON — With high winds and a high tide driving waves into the roadway Monday afternoon, police closed the Townsends Inlet Bridge connecting the community with Sea Isle City to the north.

La Plata County’s long-standing struggle to fund its Road and Bridge department has reached a breaking point, county officials say. At the most recent “On the Road” meeting, Commissioner Marsha Porter ...

Mikal Bridges’ inaugural season as a member of the New York Knicks was disappointing in a lot of different ways. Bridges had a few bright spots highlighted by his Christmas Day explosion and the pair ...

Mackinac Bridge officials have announced a high wind warning in effect for motorists driving across bridge on Wednesday, Nov. 26. "Currently we are experiencing winds of sufficient force in the ...

A guitarist playing his steel acoustic guitar and recording with a big diaphragm condenser microphone in a home recording studio Leave it to country music fans to call out an AI-generated song that ...

Hurricane hunters verified that Category 5 Hurricane Melissa produced a 252 MPH wind gust, which is one of the strongest winds ever recorded on Earth. Holger Vömel, the senior scientist at the US ...

EXCLUSIVE: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy star Chiwetel Ejiofor has joined the creative team of Royal Shakespeare Company show The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind – a project close to his heart because ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The National Science Foundation has confirmed that a dropsonde deployed into Hurricane Melissa on November 19, 2025, measured a 252 mph wind gust at the storm’s peak intensity, ...

The incredible 252 mph peak wind gust measured in Hurricane Melissa as it approached Jamaica was verified this week. That wind gust is now officially the highest wind speed ever recorded by the ...

A record-breaking 252-mph wind reading measured by a dropsonde launched from an NOAA Hurricane Hunter airplane during a mission into Hurricane Melissa has been verified, making it the strongest wind ...