Before you get too excited about spring being just around the corner, remember that from March 11 to March 14, 1888, one of the most intense blizzards in American history buried New York City under ...

Mother Nature has a way of reminding us who’s really in charge. Throughout history, weather events have stopped armies in ...

Utica's Roscoe Conkling — once a powerful, influential U.S. senator and now a successful corporate lawyer in New York City — looks out a window in his office at Broadway and Wall Street and sees snow.

Beginning March 12, 1888, a destructive blizzard known as the "Great White Hurricane" buried the Northeast with up to 50 inches of snow over the course of three unrelenting days. When the great storm ...

The blizzard of March 1888 disrupted the lives of people in Montgomery County along with the rest of the northeastern United States. The storm killed more than 400 people, including 200 schoolchildren ...

The advent of a potential blizzard causes me to pause my story of the Musica family. They’ll be back on Thursday. Meanwhile, please consider the following: Whenever anyone talks about snowstorms in ...

The Blizzard of 1888 began as a deceptively warm January morning across the American Midwest, luring children to school without their coats and farmers back into the fields. Within hours, a deadly ...

Platte County Historical Society will present “Blizzard of 1888 — The School Children's Blizzard” at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 5, at the Platte County Historical Society Museum’s west building, 2916 16th St.

We may be wrapping up an unseasonably warm December week, but Minnesotans are well aware that this is borrowed time. Soon the temperatures will be dropping, and it’s inevitable that at some point, the ...

Old Man Winter finally broke the streak of 700-plus days last week without an appreciable snowstorm when the white stuff fell, clogging roads, closing schools and making life semi-miserable for those ...