The Latest Breaking News from Southwest

One of the biggest changes since the pandemic has been the record growth seen in several U.S. real estate markets. Many of these regions are in the sunbelt, which is defined as the American South and Southwest.

Widespread heavy rain and flooding is expected to persist in the southern U.S. throughout the week.

Food deserts. Poor housing conditions. Lack of community investment.

Climate change is stoking life-threatening heat and wildfires in Europe while tens of millions of Americans in the South, Southwest and Midwest broil under excessive heat this week. Much of California is under strict outdoor watering restrictions because of severe drought. But President Biden’s best hope for serious climate action…

There is something profoundly unsettling about the lush green landscape in Southern California, a desert transformed by the power of water.

LOS ANGELES — Unprecedented dryness across the Western United States is meeting with increasingly warm temperatures to create climate conditions so extreme that the landscape of California could permanently and profoundly change, a growing number of scientists say.

Ancient ice cores drilled from Antarctic glaciers shed light on why Western Australia's South-West region is experiencing a drought on a scale that has only occurred twice before in 2,000 years.

The race to the Rockies and Southwest in our work-from-anywhere world signals new emerging powers.

Multiple miscalculations, inaccurate models and a lack of understanding of just how dry things are in the Southwest resulted in a planned burn to reduce the threat of wildfire turning into the largest blaze in New Mexico's recorded history