The Latest Breaking News from Southwest

The intense, sweltering heat will continue to grip the Southwest this week, which can place additional stress on the energy grid.

The National Weather Service has warned people in several cities, including Phoenix and Miami, to avoid the sun over the coming days as temperatures climb to life-threatening numbers.

The Navajo Nation, the largest Native American reservation in the U.S., covers 27,000 square miles (70,000 square kilometers) in the Southwest – an area larger than 10 states. Today it is home to more than 250,000 people – roughly comparable to the population of St. Petersburg, Florida, or Winston-Salem, North…

July Nymex natural gas (NGN23 ) on Thursday closed up +0.011 (+0.42%) but remained below Tuesday's 1-month high. Hot weather continues to be a bullish factor for nat-gas prices, with the scorching weather in Texas expected to last into next week and possibly extend to the Southwest. Utilities in Texas...

July Nymex natural gas (NGN23 ) on Wednesday closed up +0.105 (+4.21%) and moved back up towards Tuesday's 1-month high. July nat-gas Wednesday rallied on the continued scorching weather in Texas. Maxar is predicting continued triple-digit temperatures in Texas and that heat could extend to the Southwest, although the 11-15...

The Southwest meets the celestial — and the stage — in Wes Anderson’s latest ditty “Asteroid City,” in which the auteur brings his singular blend of melancholy charm to a story about the stars, of all kinds.

Triple-digit temperatures have prompted severe weather and another round of heat advisories across much of the southern United States

"Asteroid City," Wes Anderson's half-irritating, half-intoxicating desert bloom of a movie, unfolds mostly in 1955 in a small Southwest town — a postcard-perfect oasis surrounded by cactuses, red rocks and vast horizons.

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as “The Road,” “Blood Meridian” and “All the Pretty Horses.”