Maggie Koerth is a contributing columnist for the Minnesota Star Tribune focusing on nature in Minnesota's urban areas. She ...

A coalition of conservation groups and Native American tribal citizens on Friday called on President Joe Biden to designate ...

Indigenous North Americans spread peaches after explorers introduced them. They developed unique varieties and cultivated ...

Spanish explorers may have brought the first peach pits to North America, but Indigenous communities helped the ubiquitous summer fruit really take root, according to a new study.

Imagine being “this close” to the Sphere, the new concert venue that dominates views of the Las Vegas Strip with its enormous ...

The state’s Republican-controlled legislature passed a sweeping bill that would erode the power of the Democratic governor ...

Here’s another way to look at why Republicans swept the 2024 elections: It’s the fault, only partly, of course, of the gerontocracy of the Democratic Party. Going back through history, ...

China has published baselines for a contested shoal in the South China Sea it had seized from the Philippines, a move that’s likely to increase tensions over overlapping territorial claims.

After a weeks-long delay blamed on Hurricane Helene, Fall For Greenville takes to the city's Main Street this weekend, ...

Seoul (South Korea ... the first time with North Korean troops. In the NYT report while the Ukrainian official offered no details about casualties, a US official said a significant number of North ...

By midnight on Sunday, most of the country will have closed their polls. We'll be tracking those results on this map. It's pretty simple to use – just hover over the state you want to see and ...

NORTH CAROLINA, USA — North Carolina voters chose President-elect Donald Trump over Vice President Kamal Harris at the polls on Tuesday. Here's a county-by-county breakdown of how the ...