The effects of The Dust Bowl in the early 1930s led to a wave of record-setting heat waves across the eastern half of the ...

There are far too many true believers among journalists, all eager to join AP’s Seth Borenstein in declaring this the ...

For High Plains Polar Radio Readers Club, I'm Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas.Today, I'm talking about the book Dust Bowl, The ...

With the 52nd annual Dust Bowl basketball tournament set to tip off July 18, organizers have been working to build for the event's present and future — while still paying ...

The Dust Bowl, as AP reporter Robert Geiger coined it, covered the Oklahoma Panhandle and the four states bordering it — northern Texas, northeast New Mexico, southeast Colorado and western Kansas.

1. In “The Grapes of Wrath,” John Steinbeck captures the suffocating dust storms and drought that plagued the Great Plains during the 1930s. “All day the dust sifted down from the sky, and ...

Check out the history of the famous dust bowl in this week's Weather Wonders.

At its height, 700 people from 35 states called the community home before the dust bowl wiped it out. It was the largest Black homesteading settlement in Colorado.

The Dust Bowl was legendary for the swirling dust storms known as black blizzards. But it was also a time for record heat, even rainfall, not just in mid-summer, but also in late May in the Plains ...