The blast of cold that fueled record snowfall across Gulf Coast beaches last week was just the latest to transport frigid air that normally swirls above the North Pole to places much farther south — a ...

During World War II, the U.S. got a taste of what a war in the Arctic could look like. In the Battle of Attu, the Japanese army took the Aleutian island of Attu in Alaska and the 7th Infantry Division ...

New York City and Washington, D.C., were among the cities urging unsheltered people to get in from the cold Tuesday as the Northeast, the Great Plains and the Midwest faced winter storms that put tens ...