Old Man Winter finally broke the streak of 700-plus days last week without an appreciable snowstorm when the white stuff fell, clogging roads, closing schools and making life semi-miserable for those ...

Before you get too excited about spring being just around the corner, remember that from March 11 to March 14, 1888, one of the most intense blizzards in American history buried New York City under ...

The Daily Gazette is reprinting excerpts of the late Larry Hart’s long-running column, “Tales of Old Dorp.” A relatively snow-free February does not mean spectacular snows of winter are over. Today, ...

You often hear about a blizzard's ability to shut a city down. Now imagine such a storm happening before the basic weather forecast infrastructure (satellites, computer forecast models) we take for ...

The blizzard of March 1888 disrupted the lives of people in Montgomery County along with the rest of the northeastern United States. The storm killed more than 400 people, including 200 schoolchildren ...

Piano maker William Steinway woke up on March 12, 1888, and discovered "the most fearful snowstorm . . . I ever experienced" had buried New York City. Before the day had ended, he wrote in his diary, ...

Take a look at some of the major snowstorms and blizzards that have blasted Nebraska. A sudden, fierce blizzard slashed across Nebraska 137 years ago today. Sheritha Jones, World-Herald historian ...

Platte County Historical Society will present “Blizzard of 1888 — The School Children's Blizzard” at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 5, at the Platte County Historical Society Museum’s west building, 2916 16th St.

"The Children's Blizzard" by David Laskin, HarperCollins, 307 pages, $24.95. Walk down the Great Hall of Nebraska's State Capitol, heading for the Rotunda. Look up at the giant murals. Look ...

Somewhere on a highway between North Dakota and Missouri, a play Becky Boesen was writing about the children’s blizzard of 1888 turned into something much more personal, a story about grief and ...