"The road exploded and rose over 18 inches, sending a car airborne," said Albert Blackwell, who captured the moment on video.

Nearly 160 million people are under heat alerts from eastern Texas to Maine, as temperatures are forecasted to be as much as ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Extensive triple digit heat, broken temperature records and oppressive humidity piled up into a steaming mess ...

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Residents of the state of Maine are not used to extreme heat. We hear from a strawberry farm where owners are worried about crop damage, and a beach where people are heading to cool off this summer.

OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Maine — Visitors at Old Orchard Beach are dipping their toes to beat Tuesday's extreme heat. "I'm here on ...

For huge sections of the East Coast, it’s been a sweltering start to summer with more than 40 cities recording record highs ...

Portland Parks employees work 365 days a year, rain or shine, heat or cold. But Marena says they are taking it easy Tuesday.

Even as the heat dome begins to wane, portions of 20 states from the Ohio Valley to the Deep South and the Carolinas to southern New England remain under heat alerts on Wednesday. Temperatures in the ...

A massive heat dome that sparked the first major heat wave of the summer brought record-breaking temperatures to cities from ...

Numerous cities along the East Coast broke or tied heat records as temperatures soared to triple digits on Tuesday.