These fast-hitting, intense blasts of snow and whipping winds can make for treacherous travel, especially on the highway.

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, who won the pairs title at the 1994 world championships and competed at the Winter Olympics twice, were aboard the plane, officials said.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the controversial choice for Secretary of Health and Human Services, faced tough questions from Massachusetts and New Hampshire senators on vaccines and abortion at his confirmation hearing.

A 3.8-magnitude earthquake centered near the Maine coast rattled houses in northern New England on Monday and was felt by surprised residents of states hundreds of miles away.

An earthquake​ just off Maine today was felt in Boston and into Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire, according to a "shake map."

An earthquake centered off the coast of Maine rattled the region, causing light to moderate shaking in the state, as well as in parts of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut.

A 3.8-magnitude earthquake shook the coast of New England Monday morning, officials said.The epicenter was pinpointed about 6 miles southeast of<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, who won the pairs title at the 1994 world championships and competed at the Winter Olympics twice, were aboard the plane, officials said.

After months of brutal cold fronts throughout New England, the Old Farmer's Almanac is predicting warmer-than-normal temperatures for the region this spring. The Old Farmer's Almanac's long-range spring weather forecast is predicting warm temperatures for most of the country in April and May.

As we look ahead to the weekend, the jet stream will continue to flex slightly north and south of New England, prodding a couple more fast-moving storms to push into the region Friday and then again Sunday night. That will definitely make Saturday the pick of the weekend.