“Corn sweat” is when corn plants release moisture into the air to stay cool, collectively providing the American Midwest a substantial surge in humidity every summer. It’s a process called ...

Hot weather—along with extreme humidity levels that are usually associated more with the sultry U.S. Southeast—has enveloped much of the Midwest and will move into the mid-Atlantic states over ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) issued extreme heat warnings and heat advisories for parts of the Midwest on Tuesday, as temperatures are expected to soar into the upper 90s across the region.

A record-setting heat blast that swept across the Midwest this week has been made worse by the region's vast fields of cornstalks. Through a natural process commonly called "corn sweat," water ...

Extreme heat is gripping the Midwest before moving into the Northeast. Chicago is in the center of an excessive heat warning that stretches north to Madison, Wisconsin, and south to Springfield ...

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. — Fairview Heights police are investigating after a large fight shut down the Midwest WingFest early on Saturday night. According to organizers, Midwest WingFest in ...

Record highs are possible in Tennessee, North Carolina and Kentucky. Life-threatening heat spread across the eastern half of the U.S. this week, first hitting the Midwest, then the Northeast and ...

About 75 million people from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic coast are under heat alerts as abnormally high temperatures blast the eastern United States. The heat is sprawled over the region as ...

A fireball bright enough to be easily seen from space recently broke apart above the Midwest, according to NASA. NASA Meteor Watch A lot of midwesterners were recently left impressed, and ...

On a tree-lined street in St Louis, a post-industrial Midwestern city whose population has been shrinking for decades, a bold project is under way to reverse the region’s deteriorating demographics.

D.C. may hit a new record-high temperature on Wednesday. Extreme heat is gripping the Midwest before moving into the Northeast. Chicago is in the center of an excessive heat warning that stretches ...