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More than half the deaths occurred in western New York, which struggled with super-size snow drifts that snarled emergency vehicles. Buffalo's responders rescued hundreds trapped in cars.

US emergency crews counted the grim costs of a colossal winter storm that brought Christmas chaos to millions, especially in hard-hit western New York, where the death toll reached 25 Monday in what authorities described as a "war with mother nature."

Hell - a small town in Michigan - quite literally froze over after local temperatures dropped to -10C

A frigid winter storm killed at least 18 people as it swept across the country, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses and leaving millions of people on edge about the possibility of Christmas Eve blackouts. The storm unleashed its full fury on Buffalo, New York,…

Dangerously cold temperatures settled over a wide swath of the U.S. and Canada on Saturday as a massive winter storm upended road and air travel at the start of the Christmas holiday and left millions without power or facing rolling blackouts.

The weather service said "life-threatening cold temperatures and dangerous wind chills will create a potentially life-threatening hazard for travelers that become stranded" or people who work outside.

New York's Democratic governor picked "potentially the worst" of seven choices

New York will be the fourth U.S. state to require salary ranges with job postings when a new law signed Wednesday by Governor Kathy Hochul takes effect in September. This fall, one in every five people in the U.S. will live in a state with so-called pay transparency laws.

New York's first legal dispensary for recreational marijuana is set to open Dec. 29