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Tropical Storm Irene destroyed roads and marooned residents in more than a dozen central and southern Vermont towns in a matter of hours. The disaster took four days to unfold on Camels Hump Road, just east of Chittenden County.

The total damages from Hurricane Irene have yet to be assessed, but already the White House and congressional Republicans are fighting over the ...

New York may have been spared the worst of Hurricane Irene's wrath, but Broadway took a bath.

The Washington area began to return to normal Monday after a lashing by the former hurricane Irene, but hundreds of thousands of residents remained without power, and several local school systems were closed

Hurricane Irene knocked out power to nearly 1 million customers in Virginia; it was being restored in some areas today. Dominion Virginia Power said on its website early Sunday that more than 973,000 of its more than 2.4 million customers were without power Sunday morning.

Main stock exchanges Nasdaq, NYSE and BATS expect to open trading on Monday as usual despite Hurricane Irene, although a final decision, especially on opening the Big Board floor, is yet to come.

Airlines are scrapping more than 9,000 flights this weekend from North Carolina to Boston.

Authorities posted warnings for Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic as forecasters predicted Tropical Storm Irene would strengthen into a hurricane Monday.

A tropical storm has regained hurricane strength as it powers towards Haiti, threatening earthquake survivors.

Powerful Hurricane Karl is bringing torrents of rain and fierce winds to the Mexico coast as the eye of the storm makes landfall.