Erin Doherty went to the mud-caked beaches of Montecito, Calif. with her husband to see firsthand the damage caused by a massive mudslide that ravaged this seaside town near the city of Santa Barbara.

The community is seeing baby steps toward a semblance of normalcy in some areas of Montecito and great progress in others more than three weeks after the deadly and devastating mudslides of Jan. 9.

Fifty years after the river Arno burst its banks with devastating consequences, Florence will this week remember the Angels of the Mud who came to save the Italian city’s artistic treasures. The army ...

ROME — When the Benedictine monks in Norcia led residents in prayer before the ruins of their medieval city, they showed one way the church steps into action in times of crisis. First responders ...

Fifty years after the river Arno burst its banks with devastating consequences, Florence will this week remember the Angels of the Mud who came to save the Italian city's artistic treasures. The army ...