RALEIGH, N.C. -- Elsa strengthened into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season on Friday as it battered the eastern Caribbean, where officials closed schools, businesses and airports under the ...

Tropical Storm Elsa is officially the earliest E-name storm on record, breaking the record set just last year by Edouard.

Elsa strengthened into a hurricane Tuesday evening as it moved up Florida's west coast slowly. The storm was a tropical storm as it moved across Cuba Monday. Back over open water, the storm regained ...

A boat from Cuba capsized in the storm-hit Straits of Florida this week, spurring a search in which nine people were still missing Wednesday after 13 were rescued, the US Coast Guard said. Crews of ...