A 50-foot-tall Ferris wheel takes center stage at Riley Park next month, to celebrate the park’s 100th birthday.

City officials and ICON leaders are preparing to embark on the first phase of the project, eyeing construction as early as this winter.

Beachgoers in the San Francisco Bay Area encountered a rare hoodwinker sunfish washed ashore on a beach on Sept. 7.

OLD FORT, N.C. (AP) — Morning mist is still burning off the surrounding mountains when they appear: Small groups of helmeted ...

The start of fall is a busy time for creatures great and small in Colorado. See what’s happening in the great outdoors.

In England, similar recent dips can be seen in garden warbler and coal tit populations, Defra says. Across the UK as a whole, the figures showed three woodland species in serious trouble, with their ...

For nearly four decades, the Iowa baseball field used as the set of the beloved Hollywood movie has been trying to find its next act.

Researchers are unraveling the complex symbiotic relationship between fungi and the saguaro cactus, which is increasingly at ...

“The rebel commander and pioneering first president, George Washington, famously vowed never to set foot on British soil. And my five times great grandfather, King George III, for his part, did not ...

Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer spoke Sept. 9 with the Citizen Times about Helene recovery, rebuilding and the way forward.

States where national parks draw major tourism lobbied to keep them open during past shutdowns, and Utah agreed to donate ...

The state's largest water park held a groundbreaking Tuesday for its new endless river attraction set to open next year.