A lightning fire that started Thursday in the Mat-Su Valley was among dozens of new wildland blazes sparked around Alaska by thunderstorms, wind and high temperatures.

The storm’s death toll remained at one Friday, a 1-year-old boy who drowned in a swollen river, President Claudia Sheinbaum ...

A 15-year-old boy survived a lightning strike during a thunderstorm in New York’s Central Park Thursday afternoon.