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ADDRESSING GLOBAL warming requires a dramatic departure from business, and politics, as usual.

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Get all the weather information you need, right from your desktop! Our new desktop application features 15-day forecasts and more hour-by-hour weather! NEW! Lightning Strike Animation! AccuWeather.com MapSpace features colorful, easy-to-read animations of the last two hours of lightning strikes across the United States and six regions.

Torrential rain and storms have been pummeling New Englanders the past few days, washing out roadways, flooding homes and halting traffic.

The country's smallest state has the longest official name: "State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations." A push to drop "Providence Plantations" from that name advanced farther than ever on Thursday when House lawmakers voted 70-3 to let residents decide whether their home should simply be called the "State of Rhode Island." It's an ...

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Heaven knows, we endure endless winters only to have endless mud season in hopes of a few fine days of days of sunshine and gentle breezes.

The news of Michael Jackson's death spread quickly around Southern New England. Radio station B-101 kicked into Michael Jackson memory mode right away.

"Stone kitchens can be used in any climate, even the harsh extremes of northern climates -- something other types of outdoor kitchens cannot withstand," stated Joe Raboine in an interview I conducted with him on stone kitchens .

Where's summer already? Thats the question on everybody's mind with the official start less than three days away.

People in 29 states have now gotten sick from eating raw Nestle cookie dough, including several people in New England.

The hardest part of boat ownership is naming it. There are just too many good ones. My personal favorites are Never Again XXVI, seen on a transom in Maine, and G Willie Makit, on a fishing boat in Block Island, R.I. New Englanders have that wonderful, dry wit.

In quiet moments, I conjure up good boat names but rarely get around to painting them on. Sometimes they just happen. So it was with our crabbing skiff, a humble, 18-foot, flat-bottom plywood craft supposedly designed after a Nova Scotia fishing boat called a Novi. I've spent quite a bit of time in the Canadian Maritimes but never saw anything remotely like it there.

It's called the Highway 21 Treasure Hunt a weekend to stop, shop and deal along a 100-mile stretch of country road in central and western North Dakota.

Philadelphia radio host Michael Smerconish is coming to WTKK-FM on Sundays. The station plans to air his 'best of' from noon to 3 p.m. starting this weekend.

And there are two voices from the past that offer both on a collective and an individual level a very cogent observation.

The new fuel economy standard announced last month by President Barack Obama could benefit New Englanders $10 billion by 2025 through fuel savings and local reinvestment, according to a new study.

In New England people used to make a strong drink from cider called applejack, but I heard they didn't do it by distillation, but by some sort of freezing.

Editors: 1843-46, E.R. Tyler; 1857?-65, W.L. Kingsley; 1866-75, W.L. Kingsley, G.P. Fisher, T. Dwight.

Since 1990 Trafford's RV has been making New Englanders camping dreams come true.

What is natural? How can a garden not be natural or is it even possible a garden can ever really be natural? These somewhat philosophical questions lurk behind much of Noel Kingsbury's new book, . In a world dominated by urban development and sprawl, a return to nature is increasingly the goal and inspiration for gardeners.