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 ...

Political polarization is at an all-time high. Students part of this University of San Diego Kroc School of Peace Studies ...

A map of California is both beautiful and confounding — a giant sock-shaped space somehow stuffed with both mountains and beach, palm trees and eucalyptus, snow and sun, avocados and almonds, ...

I was lucky enough to be born in a time where I’ve never had to use physical maps to get places. And while I do find paper ...

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, ...

The U.S. military is facing a major shortage of antimony, a little-known metal that is critical not just to U.S. national ...

President Joe Biden has for the first time authorized the use of U.S.-supplied long-range missiles by Ukraine to strike ...

President-elect Trump spoke with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol by phone Thursday to map out a peaceful solution to Russia and North Korea’s growing alliance. Throughout the U.S. general ...

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