California authorities shut down 100 miles of Interstate 80 on Friday as the biggest snow storm of the season bore down on the Sierra Nevada.
Residents were urged to take shelter and stay off roads as they prepared for up to 10 feet of snow in some areas and damaging winds up to 145mph.
‘AAANNNDD WE’RE CLOSED!!’ the California Highway Patrol posted on X, saying the closure was due to ‘spin outs, high winds, and low visibility. No estimated time
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At least 48 people have died following the devastating 7.6 magnitude earthquake that rocked Japan’s main island of Honshu yesterday, reducing tens of thousands of houses and buildings to rubble and leaving terrified survivors to brave sub-zero temperatures on the streets, unable to return to their homes.
Dozens of people are still missing and unaccounted for amid the New Year’s disaster, with the death toll expected to rise sharply as rescuers begin to recover victims buried beneath the debris.
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It’s been a Christmas to remember in regional NSW after a town was covered in massive hailstones amid severe thunderstorms that are pelting the east coast.
Residents in Grenfell, 370km west of Sydney, are experiencing a white Christmas after golf ball-sized chunks fell as families prepared for the day’s celebrations.
Locals reported hail 10cm across falling in Orange as severe thunderstorms drove holiday-revellers in NSW indoors.
Featuring hail, heavy rain and dangerous winds, the storms have plagued the state along
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Tradies left permanently incapacitated with silicosis have slammed the federal Government for taking so long to ban engineered stone products.
The Albanese Labor government will finally hold ‘initial discussions’ about a Safe Work Australia report considering whether potentially deadly engineered stone should be banned.
More than 600,000 workers across the nation have been exposed to respirable crystalline silica, which can lead to silicosis: a debilitating and incurable form of lung disease.
Unions and tradesmen impacted by the disease have
Florida has been malleted by Hurricane Idalia as huge storm surges and 110mph winds whipped across the state’s Big Bend.
The monster storm, which was downgraded to a Category 2 as it moved inland, engulfed much of the coastline at the top of the Panhandle on Wednesday morning.
Idalia crossed onto Florida’s Big Bend at Keaton Beach at 7.45am on Wednesday and is now heading northeast towards Georgia and the Carolinas.
It’s the strongest storm to make landfall in the
UK air traffic control ‘don’t seem like they’re fully on top of the situation’, an expert told MailOnline today – amid warnings travel chaos could last for days with thousands of passengers stranded following a catastrophic system meltdown.
Almost 1,000 flights were grounded and cancelled with thousands more delayed after Britain’s National Air Traffic Services (NATS) experienced ‘technical issues’ yesterday.
Today, around 200,000 passengers remain stranded in a location they do not wish to be, while 200 flights out of
The director of the British Museum has resigned ‘with immediate effect’ and its deputy has stepped back following a disastrous week in which it emerged a curator had been sacked after almost 2,000 artefacts were reported to have been stolen.
Director Hartwig Fischer and deputy director Jonathan Williams both announced their decisions on Friday.
Both were criticised when whistleblower Dr Ittai Gradel revealed he had contacted them about alleged thefts in February 2021, after spotting items he had seen in
Officials are urging visitors to remain cautious following two drownings at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
The National Park Service said Friday that the fatalities occurred over the past weekend.
The fatalities bring the total number of deaths this year in the area – Lake Mead sits at the Nevada-Arizona border – to 19.
“Two more people drowned at Lake Mead NRA – that’s 19 fatalities this year, a sad trend we want to change,” Acting Superintendent Mike Gauthier
Towns across Britain are facing a battering as Storm Antoni smashes into the UK this weekend.
The Met Office has now issued Amber weather warnings for wind for areas of Southwest England and Wales – with winds of up to 70mph expected in some areas.
The amber warning, in force from 11am until 7pm on Saturday, states: “An area of low pressure, Storm Antoni, will bring particularly strong winds for the time of year to parts of southwest Wales and
