The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Hang in there Iowa - it will be Friday before we see temperatures above zero in the Corridor, but ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Here it comes again. The polar vortex, which usually keeps bitter cold temperatures swirling around the ...

In an early sign of the winter weather that's coming, the dreaded polar vortex is making news yet again. The polar vortex is "ramping up from its summer slumber," said meteorologist Judah Cohen in an ...

The polar vortex, a mass of cold air over the Arctic, is beginning its seasonal strengthening. A strong polar vortex typically keeps the coldest air locked near the North Pole. A weaker or wobbling ...