Newfoundland

Vikings from Greenland — the first Europeans to arrive in the Americas — lived in a village in Canada’s Newfoundland exactly 1,000 years ago, according to research published Wednesday.

People in the Canadian Atlantic coast province of Newfoundland woke up to streets littered with branches and debris, torn and tossed around by the ferocious winds of hurricane Larry

A photo of a washed-up shark on Cape Cod offers a rare close-up look at the elusive animal. The 6-foot porbeagle shark was found dead just north of on Marconi Beach Sunday, according to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, which shared the photo on Facebook.

Friday Night: Mostly clear and cold. Lows in the teens and 20s. Saturday: Sunny and chilly. Highs in the 30s.

Skies remain mostly clear overnight with a low temperature in the teens north and 20s south, the breeze remains from the northwest about 15 to 20 mph creating a colder wind chill factor. For the weekend, all eyes are on a major storm impacting much of the western United States, with snow in the hills all the way to southern...

The storm that brought us rain and thunder, and some Thanksgiving snow for the ski areas, Wednesday night and early this morning is now strengthening and slowing down east of New England. Recall last year— it was one of the snowiest and coldest Thanksgiving days on record. Although it won’t be as bad this year, it is chilly outside for...

Hear from the cast of the new Broadway musical, about a plane diverted to Newfoundland during 9/11, and the town’s real mayor.

Scientists have discovered a mash-up of two feared disasters — hurricanes and earthquakes — and they’re calling them “stormquakes.” The shaking of the sea floor during hurricanes and nor’easters can rumble like a magnitude 3.5 earthquake and can last for days, according to a study in this week’s journal Geophysical Research Letters.

A high school science teacher from Cincinnati, Ohio, has rowed solo across the Atlantic, setting a record for a west-to-east crossing.

With comfortably low humidity, sunshine and warm air during the day, cool and clear at night, and a near full strawberry moon, this is possibly the best kind of weather we can ask for in New England.

A Pennsylvania church is hosting a “blessing” ceremony Wednesday featuring AR-15 rifles, prompting school officials to relocate students from a nearby elementary school to another campus. World Peace and Unification Sanctuary in Newfoundland believes the AR-15 symbolizes the “rod of iron” in the biblical book of Revelation, and it is encouraging couples to bring “AR15 semiautomatic rifle or equivalents such...

The five-day forecast brings Hurricane Jose to position very close to Nassau in the Bahamas by the weekend. The storm is then in the threat zone for the eastern United States, including New England.

After 24 days at sea and a journey spanning more than 10,000 kilometers (6,214 miles), the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica has set a new record for the earliest transit of the fabled Northwest Passage. The once-forbidding route through the Arctic, linking the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, has been opening up sooner and for a longer period each summer due...

The cast of the new Broadway production “Come from Away” don’t want you to think of their production as the 9/11 musical. Instead they want their show to be symbolic of the generosity of the human spirit..in even the most horrible of times.

Researchers are planning what they say is the first manned submersible expedition to the Titanic since 2005.

In briefs, boxers, bras and bloomers, joggers ran three-quarters of a mile in a Valentine’s Day-related charity event benefiting sick children.