Storms swirled over the Northwest early Monday, dumping snow from Washington state to Northern California.

A winter storm brought blankets of snow across Europe on Monday, forcing the closure of an icy Eiffel Tower in Paris and causing flight cancellations.

Seventy-six years after the invention of the modern sprinkler helped revolutionize farming, lasers may revolutionize it again.

The last two weeks of December were a winter nightmare for Vancouver, but the Canadian city says it's a great learning experience ahead of the 2010 Olympics.

The stage was set for avalanches that have killed 19 people in western North America in two weeks by fall weather that created slick, unstable, icy slabs on mountains across the region, experts say.