The Boston Housing Authority on Wednesday will announce a pilot project putting small heat pumps made by San Francisco-based startup Gradient in a 50-year-old, 100-apartment building. The units fit in ...

Thirteen pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested in Boston after a chaotic clash with police that resulted in four officers being sent to area hospitals for non-life-threatening ...

A hunter disappeared this week in Nelson County, but was found thanks to drone technology. Nelson County Emergency Management posted about the rescue on Facebook. They said they got the call about the ...

LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. (AP) — When sculptor Bobby Zokaites moved to Phoenix in the summer of 2011, walking the half mile to classes at Arizona State University in triple-digit heat felt risky.

Data from the Virginia Department of Health shows nearly 4,000 heat-related illness emergency visits this summer, a number experts said is higher than average. Since May 1, health department data ...

Remember Massachusetts District Court Judge Allison Burroughs? She wrote the opinion finding that Harvard engaged in no discrimination against Asian students and minimized the effect of some damning ...

Judge William G. Young of the District of Massachusetts presided over the case that would become NIH v. APHA. In this case, a majority of the Court held that a suit over cuts to funding belongs in the ...

Local agencies, nonprofits and businesses partner to establish cooling centers, distribute supplies and provide emergency alerts during dangerous heat events. Lafayette, LA – Extreme heat events are ...

BUCCI WCVB NEWSCENTER FIVE. DANNY. THANK YOU. NEW TONIGHT CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION TO REFORM BOSTON’S HIRING PROCESS. ALL OF THAT IS IN THE WAKE OF FIVE INVESTIGATES REPORTING ABOUT THAT CITY ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Residents of the Western U.S. sweltered in a heat wave Saturday that hospitalized some people, with temperatures forecast to hit dangerous levels throughout the weekend in Washington, ...