Posted: 7:20 AM Forecasters say a tropical depression crossing Mexico's Bay of Campeche is expected to become a tropical storm before making landfall in that country's Gulf coast state of Veracruz.

Posted: 7:12 AM A heat wave hitting Alaska doesn't rival the blazing heat of Phoenix or Las Vegas, but to residents of the 49th state, the weather feels like a stifling oven -- or a tropical paradise.

Posted: 7:08 AM Nearly half the people who had to evacuate their Northern California homes are being allowed to return as firefighters catch up with a wildfire near the main route into Yosemite National Park.

Posted: 6:42 AM A tornado warning for Denver International Airport is over and no damage has been reported.

Posted: 6:30 AM Fire officials in California say an unattended campfire near a main route into Yosemite National Park has grown into a blaze that has led to the evacuations of 800 homes and 1,500 people.

Posted: 6:42 AM A tropical depression has formed off the coast of Belize and forecasters say it is expected to bring as much as five inches of rain to parts of Belize, Guatemala and northern Honduras.

Posted: 6:26 AM NASA has eight new astronauts -- its first new batch in four years.

Posted: 6:20 AM Investigators are getting closer to pinpointing where Colorado's most destructive wildfire started.

Posted: 9:13 AM Nebraska officials are sending a firefighting helicopter to Colorado to help that state battle raging wildfires near Colorado Springs.

Posted: 9:08 AM The number of homes destroyed in Colorado's most destructive wildfire ever continues to rise.

Posted: 8:10 AM A tornado is suspected of damaging houses and outbuildings in the Nebraska Panhandle on Tuesday night.

Updated: 4:13 AM Meteorologists are warning that a gigantic line of powerful thunderstorms is likely to threaten one in five Americans on Wednesday.

Updated: 9:16 PM After cooler temperatures last week, summer is in the forecast. Parts of the state started the day extra hot after rare heat bursts.

Updated: 10:27 AM A new smartphone app has been developed to help agricultural producers track key temperatures.

Posted: 7:31 AM Cooler temperatures and rising humidity are allowing firefighters to build lines around one edge of a wildfire north of Los Angeles.

Posted: 11:23 AM The recent rain has helped alleviate drought in Nebraska, but most of the state remains dry with the worst conditions being reported out west. The latest U.S. Drought Monitor report released Thursday says that nearly 7 percent of Nebraska in the southeast corner of the state is no longer experiencing drought.

Updated: 5:20 PM The National Weather Service says nearly a dozen tornadoes have been reported in south-central and southeastern Nebraska.

Updated: 3:05 PM A rural Clay County couple says they thought they had a close call Wednesday afternoon when they saw a funnel cloud several miles away, but less than an hour later they say a tornado knocked over a center pivot before it headed straight for their home.

Posted: 9:51 PM The Custer County emergency manager is urging residents to stay off county roads after what he calls "widespread flood damage."

Updated: 3:03 AM Weather officials say multiple tornadoes have been reported in south-central Nebraska.

Updated: 4:19 PM Weather officials say a tornado has been reported in a rural area near Hastings.

Updated: 10:21 PM Residents of the south-central town of Edgar spent Tuesday surveying and cleaning up the damage caused by an EF-2 tornado that hit around 7:30 Monday night.

Updated: 7:42 PM Friends, family and co-workers turned out to help pick up the pieces. The EF-2 tornado ripped apart roofs and scattered debris across fields.

Updated: 9:16 PM Power has been restored but crews are gearing up to do damage assessment after the storm in Jefferson County.

Updated: 10:05 PM Late night storms are believed to have started a warehouse fire in Jansen.