Cameras inside the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery caught on video the massive blasts early June 21 from just yards away.

A massive fire and series of explosions rocked a South Philadelphia refinery complex, the largest on the East Coast, early Friday morning. The blast jolted people from their sleep and prompted a shelter-in-place.

Involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges have once again been dropped against the Amtrak engineer at the controls during a deadly 2015 derailment in Philadelphia.

Storm Team4’s Lauryn Ricketts says rain and sleet is expected over the weekend.

There’s no question that living in D.C. is expensive. And rising housing costs in the area have pushed more married couples to take on roommates to save money, a new study says.

Initial projections say there will be 11 named storms forming in Atlantic Ocean between June 1st and November 30th – with four of them becoming hurricanes and just two of those being classified as major.

At least eight deaths have been blamed on a record-breaking cold spell that still had its grip on much of the country Wednesday morning, NBC News reported. More than 150 record-low temperatures were recorded from Texas to Maine, proving particularly punishing to areas that were enjoying relatively balmy temperatures in the days before. The National Weather Service said the cold...

While preparing giant panda Bei Bei to return to China, the National Zoo is holding a week of farewell celebrations. Aimee Cho reports.

Conservationists fear hundreds of koalas have perished in wildfires that have razed prime habitat on Australia’s east coast. Port Macquarie Koala Hospital President Sue Ashton said she hoped wildlife carers would be allowed to begin their search of the fire zone for survivors on Thursday. The fire was started by a lightning strike on Friday in a forest in New...

The shutdown of one of the nation’s oldest nuclear power plants last year is having a surprising, stinging consequence for a New Jersey bay considered one of the nation’s most fragile.

Police believe a man killed his wife in D.C. Aimee Cho reports he was found in a car in Maryland dead from an apparent self-inflicted wound.

Scientists say Hurricane Dorian washed out to sea more than 8,000 sea turtle nests from a Florida wildlife refuge.

KFC is taking America’s love of two foods to the next level with a series of chicken and doughnut meals across 40 locations in Virginia and Pennsylvania.

An interactive new exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History shows why the planet is warming and what impact it could have. The museum’s lead educator says the exhibit offers hope and inspiration on how humans can help. News4’s Meagan Fitzgerald reports.

Jeffrey Roberts lifted a mustard-yellow curtain from the ground to hunt for passports and other documents at the place where his family’s home stood before Hurricane Dorian blasted into Grand Bahama Island. What was underneath was sodden and unrecognizable. He shuffled across a white tile floor, the only clear sign this had once been a house, and found a pair...

A new development in Tysons, Virginia, called “The Boro” is betting on getting people to ditch their cars and live in a space where they can live, work and play — all within a short distance to the Metro. News4’s Adam Tuss reports the development includes apartments, the largest Whole Foods on the East Coast, a movie theater, shops, restaurants...

A brick of cocaine washed ashore on a Florida beach as Hurricane Dorian made its way up the coast, authorities said.

Local volunteers with the American Red Cross prepped vehicles with relief supplies in Fairfax, Virginia, Sunday in anticipation of Hurricane Dorian. The organization says it’s mobilizing people from all over the country to help thousands in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina who may need emergency shelter. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

Trump administration officials said Sunday that transferring $155 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Disaster Relief Fund to Immigration and Customs Enforcement won’t affect the federal government’s ability to respond to Hurricane Dorian, a massive storm headed for the country’s east coast. As NBC News reported last week, the Department of Homeland Security notified Congress in July that to...