KATOOMBA, New South Wales — A powerful lightning strike hit Katoomba, New South Wales, on Monday, March 23, triggering a chain reaction that ignited a fire, caused trees to explode, and ruptured a gas ...

A large pine tree lays along North Seventh Street in Marietta Thursday following the hail storm the night before. (Photo by Amber Phipps) Lighting struck both a house and a tree in Reno along State ...

Lightning struck a tree early Friday, April 10, splintering branches and damaging a church office and Sonoma County’s ambulance service office in the Oakmont area of Santa Rosa, according to officials ...