Weather

A dangerous winter storm combining high winds and ice is sweeping through parts of the U.S. Southeast, knocking out power, felling trees and fences and coating roads with a treacherous frigid glaze.

The Metro South and Central transfer stations in the Portland area have temporarily stopped accepting trash loads from the general public as they work through mountains of garbage.

Emergency workers have recovered the body of a man whose vehicle was swept into floodwaters west of Olympia after record precipitation and flooding deluged the Pacific Northwest.

A famed desert landscape has reemerged as water levels in Lake Powell reservoir have fallen to record lows. It's raising questions about the future of this oasis and water in the American West.

After a high amount of snow early in the season, the Willamette Valley can expect dry conditions during the second weekend of January.

The latest storm to hit the Pacific Northwest brought flood warnings, the shutdown of a major mountain pass, school closures and icy roads.

Parts of several major highways in Oregon remained closed Wednesday or shut down again due to lingering snow from a blizzard earlier in the week that was compounded by fresh snowfall in some areas.

It was too snowy access the slopes at some of Northwest Oregon's best-known downhill ski areas on Tuesday, as extreme weather prompted the Mt. Hood Meadows, SkiBowl and Timberline ski areas to close for the day. U.S. Highway 26 was closed to traffic for a nearly 20-mile stretch.

Authorities say Snoqualmie Pass in Washington state has received the highest snowfall in 20 years as of Jan. 3.

Wind and snow conditions are so extreme that many snow plow drivers can not see the roads well enough to plow them. In Eastern Oregon, Interstate 84 was intermittently closed and reopened through the afternoon, and the interstate was closed through the Columbia River Gorge