MIAMI — A pair of disturbances are in the Atlantic Ocean Sunday morning, one of which the National Hurricane Center estimates has a high chance of becoming a storm system by next weekend and one of which has a high chance of becoming nothing. Disturban…
As protests continue in Cuba, activists worry US aid may offer a lifeline to the government
With many homes across the country without electricity or water for four days, residents of Havana blocked some of the city’s main avenues and banged pots and pans on Saturday, the third day of demonstrations following the collapse of the electrical gr…
About 10,000 people still in Florida shelters after Hurricane Ian, officials say
Roughly 10,000 people throughout Florida remain housed in shelters after evacuating their homes, officials said Saturday, as Hurricane Ian response efforts continued three days after the disaster. The number of people displaced — which does not include…
Searching for survivors at Ian’s ground zero, Fort Myers Beach. It doesn’t always end well
Pasco, a young black Labrador retriever on his first search and rescue mission, quickly picked up the scent on Anchorage Street. He led a Miami firefighter to the top of a rubble pile and jumped down the other side. ”Confirmed!” the firefighter shouted…
Ian, in the Carolinas, is no longer a hurricane, but heavy rains and flooding continue
Ian is no longer a hurricane. The now-post tropical cyclone has brought heavy rains, flash flooding and high winds to the Carolinas since reaching the coast Friday afternoon. Ian previously left a stretch of the Southwest Florida coast in ruins as a Ca…
Greg Cote: Unfair to Dolphins for armchair experts who have never examined Tua to malign team doctors
MIAMI — Imagine how we would all be seeing the positive and defiantly doubling down on our optimism about the Miami Dolphins and this season had the game been simply a 27-15 road loss to a Cincinnati Bengals team that made the Super Bowl last season. T…
Hurricane Ian death toll passes 40, spans eight counties. Damage is ‘worst thing I’ve seen,’ county official says
MIAMI — Florida officials estimated more than 40 deaths across eight counties linked to Hurricane Ian, including from drowning and disconnected oxygen machines due to power outages. The Florida Medical Examiners Commission on Friday reported seven drow…
Hurricanes risk aggravating migration, hunger crises in Latin America and Caribbean, UN fears
Hurricanes Fiona and Ian, which displaced thousands of people across the Caribbean as they battered several islands, risked plunging an already struggling region into a deeper food crisis and could trigger further migration, the regional director for t…
Historic storm surge. Record flooding. Ian’s lesson in the rising risk of hurricanes
Hurricane Ian came ashore with devastating near-Category 5 winds that peeled the roofs off homes and uprooted trees. But for most of Florida, the greatest hurricane threat was the water. The combination of epic storm surge along the coast and unprecede…
Hurricane Ian death toll passes 35 in Florida. Damage is ‘worst thing I’ve seen,’ county official says
MIAMI — Florida officials reported more than 35 fatalities appear to be linked to Hurricane Ian, including the deaths of two elderly people who were disconnected from oxygen machines due to power outages. Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno on Friday af…