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 ...

The post-hurricane debate over how the mainstream media treated the threat raged on last night, as the many factors in play led to various theories on whether Irene was sufficiently covered. On ...

NEW YORK -- Waves splashed over the sea walls at the southern tip of Manhattan, already at Hurricane Irene levels Monday hours before the worst of a mammoth storm, Hurricane Sandy, was to hit the ...

That could mean heavy wind and rain hitting the most densely populated part of the U.S.—a formula for destruction and disruption, especially since New York hasn’t dealt with a major hurricane ...

A ny 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 ...

Orioles aid Hurricane Irene efforts By Josh Land Orioles September 07, 2011, 11:29am ...

Hurricane Irene is slowly making its way through the eastern seaboard, and on Fox News today, Shepard Smith, who does not normally anchor on Saturdays, updated viewers on the latest on the scope ...

In the last 200 years, New York has seen only a few significant hurricanes. In September 1821, a hurricane raised tides by 13 feet in an hour and flooded all of Manhattan south of Canal Street ...

Forecasters predict it will chug up the Eastern Seaboard, dumping rain from Washington, D.C., to New York City before weakening to a tropical storm by the time it reaches Boston” writes NPR.