Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Drivers ...

A video on Twitter has gained attention for showing a "tumbleweed tornado" tearing across a Washington highway. The clip was shared by Matt M. McKnight, a Seattle-based journalist with Crosscut, a ...

Blame last winter’s ‘Snowmageddon’ for this week’s ‘Tumblegeddon.’ On New Year’s Eve gusting winds blew thousands of tumbleweeds across Highway 240 northwest of Richland, forcing the highway to close ...

A handful of travelers spent the waning hours of the new year trapped inside a massive pileup of tumbleweeds that shut down a highway in eastern Washington for 10 hours. State Route 240 was closed in ...

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An intense windstorm in Australia over the weekend left parts of one suburb outside of Melbourne buried under an overabundance of tumbleweed. The freak weather event had residents, some of whom have ...

Tumbleweeds piled up around houses and shops and along roads several feet high in and around Colorado Springs and Pueblo on Monday as the system moved from north to south across the state. Peggy ...