Weather

California drought takes toll on world's top almond producer

As temperatures recently reached triple digits, farmer Joe Del Bosque inspected the almonds in his parched orchard in California’s agriculture-rich San Joaquin Valley, where a deepening drought threatens one of the state's most profitable crops.

US wheat shortage could cost pizza lovers more dough

FOX Business' Grady Trimble joined "Varney & Co." Thursday from famous Chicago pizza chain Lou Malnati's to hear from employees on how withering wheat crops could affect their classic deep-dish style pies.

NYC under blackout threat amid heat wave

New York City residents have been put on high alert to conserve energy and do so quickly as an ongoing heat wave threatens the Big Apple with blackouts.

Northwest heat wave deaths rise

About a dozen deaths in Washington and Oregon may be tied to an intense heat wave that brought scorching temperatures to the Northwest and caused one power utility to impose rolling blackouts amid heavy demand.