Hurricane Idalia strengthened to a dangerous Category 4 storm Wednesday morning as it steamed toward Florida’s Big Bend region and threatened to unleash life-threatening storm surges and rainfall.

Flood waters pushed by Hurricane Idalia pour over the sea wall along Old Tampa Bay as paddle boarder Zeke Pierce of Tampa rides by on Wednesday in Tampa, Fla. The Associated Press PERRY ...

Tropical Storm Idalia continued to bring heavy rains to South Carolina and posed a risk of sending storm surge ashore, hours after it made landfall in western Florida as a Category 3 hurricane ...