PHOENIX (AP) — Yet more severe weather struck Thursday as the Four Corners region surveyed blown-away roofs, trees knocked onto homes and power lines downed from overnight tornadoes that injured one person. The injuries weren't life threatening but rare for an area better known for scalding heat. But this fall has been unusually soggy in the Southwest with El Niño conditions that have sent one tropical system after another in from the Pacific, causing the Grand Canyon and surrounding to and...

Voter turnout is soaring compared with the last midterm election in many of the states that are expected to decide control of the U. S. Senate, according to an Associated Press analysis of early voting two weeks before Election Day. Advocates for greater voter identification requirements are pursuing a new approach in some states: a mandate to place driver’s license or partial Social Security numbers on mail-in ballots. Variations of the voter ID proposals are being decided in the midterm in...

New research into a 253-year-old coral sample from Olowalu provides a first-of-its-kind glimpse into the environmental history of Maui. Scientists who studied the two-century-old core found that the reef’s growth, or lack thereof, closely mirrored what was happening on land. The period they examined, 1760 to 2013, covers the precolonial era, the rise and fall of the sugar-plantation economy and Maui’s development as a tourist mecca. Their findings, published in the September issue of the U...