Lava Bursts from New Fissures on Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano
Fast-moving lava crossed a road and isolated about 40 homes Friday forcing at least four people to be evacuated by helicopter.
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Fast-moving lava crossed a road and isolated about 40 homes Friday forcing at least four people to be evacuated by helicopter.
Fissures, or cracks in the ground, are opening wider and wider by the day. The lush green jungle has become rotten, yellow vegetation.
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has erupted from its summit, shooting a dusty plume of ash about 30,000 feet into the sky.
Two tiny dogs in Hawaii have been rescued after they were found trapped between a fence and the dangerous lava flows.
As if the catastrophic, home-devouring lava weren't bad enough, now residents have to worry about choking on sulfur dioxide.
A new fissure emitting steam and lava spatter spurred Hawaii officials to call for more evacuations on Sunday as residents braced for an expected eruption from the Kilauea volcano.
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano spawned a new lava fissure Saturday, emitting minor lava spatter less than a mile from a geothermal energy plant.
After surviving earthquakes and molten lava, residents of Hawaii's Big Island now have new threats to worry about: steam-driven explosions, hazardous volcanic smog and acid rain.
A spewing volcano in Hawaii has forced people living in and around the Leilana Estates subdivision to make tough decisions.
It's a nightmare that Kelana Kealoha thought he had escaped when he fled the devastation of Santa Rosa for the lush greenery of Hawaii's Big Island.
Many of them grappled with uncertainty, not knowing whether their homes are intact or have been engulfed in lava.
By Monday morning, 35 structures -- including at least 26 homes -- had been destroyed in the four days since the Kilauea volcano erupted.
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano destroyed 26 homes and spewed lava hundreds of feet into the air, leaving evacuated residents unsure how long they might be displaced.
Hundreds of anxious residents on the Big Island of Hawaii hunkered down Saturday for what could be weeks or months of upheaval as the dangers from an erupting Kilauea volcano continued to grow.
Sputtering lava, strong earthquakes and toxic gas jolted the southern part of the Big Island of Hawaii as magma shifted underneath a restless Kilauea volcano.
The Kilauea volcano sent more lava into Hawaii communities Friday, a day after forcing more than 1,500 people to flee from their mountainside homes.
After a day filled with hundreds of small earthquakes, a magnitude 5.0 temblor rocked the eastern side of Big Island Thursday, prompting concerns that Kilauea Volcano could erupt.
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The site of what was once a sprawling homeless encampment in West Oakland has become an affordable housing complex for hundreds of new tenants.
A longtime manager at a cafe in San Francisco is hoping Dreamforce will present all of the out-of-towners with an opportunity for a perception correction.
San Francisco already has low-income housing, but for those who are working and don't qualify, market-rate apartments can still be too expensive. City leaders say targeting the "missing middle class" with subsidized housing offers new options.
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