Kristina Smithe was running a marathon in California a few years ago when she started thinking about all the waste such events produce — especially the blizzard of disposable paper cups that can pile ...

A female Army Ranger for the first time competed in the annual Best Ranger Competition, and her two-soldier team finished the grueling three-day event over the weekend and came in 14th overall.

There were big smiles, hugs, tears and lots of tail wagging inside San Quentin’s prison recently. All the emotions came together when two black Labradors reunited with the incarcerated men who raised ...

Animal owners in Los Angeles have scrambled to get themselves and their beloved companions out of the way of fast-moving wildfires this week that have incinerated whole neighborhoods.

Belgian ultra runner Hilde Dosogne feels she has done all it takes to become the first woman to run a marathon every single day of the year.

Debbie Nelson, the mother of rapper Eminem whose rocky relationship with her son was known widely through his song lyrics, has died. She was 69.

California-based scientists with NASA accidentally found Camp Century, an abandoned military site, buried in the arctic snow.

Two U.N. agencies say an average of 140 women and girls were killed by an intimate partner or family member per day last year.

While diplomats negotiated at the United Nations climate talks in Azerbaijan, climate experts played a board game where players are supposed to work together to combat global warming.