Evacuations began on a tiny barrier island off North Carolina as Hurricane Irene strengthened to a major Category 3 storm over the Bahamas on Wednesday with the U.S. East Coast in its sights, in a ...

With Hurricane Irene's imminent approach over the New York metropolitan area, Elaine Quijano takes a look back at one of the most devastating storms ever to strike the region, the infamous Hurricane ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Monday marks six years since a powerful and deadly storm, Irene. The storm battered the east coast and was the first major hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season.

Any hopes that Hurricane Irene might swing further east and somehow avoid smacking into the U.S. along the Eastern Seaboard have nearly vanished. While the storm’s weakened somewhat from a Category 3 ...

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 ...

Hurricane Irene is expected to make landfall near Morehead City, North Carolina, on Saturday morning before powering up the east coast. Irene will likely be a borderline category 2-3 storm at that ...

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 ...

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 ...