Bear 89, an adult brown bear nicknamed Backpack, is crowned the champion of 2026's Fat Bear Week. The tournament is held annually by Alaska's Katmai national park to celebrate the animals' preparation for winter hibernation.

An investigation by High Country News and Public Domain found the fire was started by Michael Boren’s brother Steve.

A team of mules traveled from the Shasta-Trinity National Forest to provide food and supplies to firefighters battling the Dome Fire in Yosemite.

With the midterms approaching, it’s clear the MAGA base is now deserting President Trump — and the GOP — in record numbers.

The ship, which supported the U.S. war with Iran, was at sea for nearly 300 days without a port call.

More than 150,000 pounds of raw pork, beef and goat products have been recalled nationwide.

President Donald Trump is speaking Sept. 22 to the U.N. General Assembly for the first time since the United States started its war with Iran. PolitiFact is fact-checking his remarks live. Follow alon...

'Late that night, in absolute darkness, it hit, with the far shrieking screams, the queer rumbling of a vast and irresistible freight train,' Marjory Stoneman Douglas wrote of the storm.

In July 2025, a team of US Marshals arrested 50-year-old Lipps in Tennessee at gunpoint while she was babysitting four young children. She was booked into the...

He’s just a dear friend we know nothing about!

Common in the Caribbean and Central America, the flies' larvae burrow into the flesh of warm-blooded creatures.

Austin Tice’s abduction was approved by Syria’s former leader Bashar al-Assad, a source claims.

A former park leader and local employee express concern that economic pressure compromised safety following the Dragon Bravo Fire and recent flooding.

Following the tragic deaths of three Rifle Helitack crew members on the Snyder Fire in Colorado, experts explain the mechanics of emergency shelters, and how they can reach a breaking point.

US grapples with federal firefighter shortage as crews say they’re spread thin and lack resources during unrelenting year of fire

US grapples with federal firefighter shortage as crews say they’re spread thin and lack resources during unrelenting year of fire

The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.

For this forecast, we still have the time to act.

New York City released about 170,000 pages of documents related to post-9/11 air quality and health risks on Tuesday.

The low-cost airline is leaving the major airport after just two years.

Images of real children—including a member of a European royal family—were used to create some of the 350 ads containing child sexual abuse. Lawmakers say they plan to investigate.

Trump’s changes to the tax code lean heavily toward higher income Americans. Here’s how you can prepare for the impact.

First We Bombed New Mexico follows a Latina cancer survivor on her quest to find justice for the Latino, Native New Mexican, and future residents who have suffered generational cancers tied to the 194...

US vice-president says he’s ‘extremely skeptical’ of Iran reports when asked whether US was responsible for deaths The US vice-president, JD Vance, said “sometimes things happen” when asked on Thursday whether an American strike was responsible for killing four people, including a child, at a wedding celebration in southern Iran this week. The strike hit Kuhestak, a town in Sirik county on the strait of Hormuz. The toll was reported not by the Iranian government but by the Iranian Red Crescent, a member of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement that operates independently of Tehran and is generally treated by international monitors as a credible source on casualty figures. Continue reading...

Gov. Katie Hobbs says a three-year freeze on data center tax exemptions will save Arizona $57 million, helping fund childcare, food aid and rural hospitals.

After months of uncertainty, researchers with the U.S. Forest Service are learning whether they will have to relocate under the agency’s sweeping restructure.

New Mexico Rep. Andrea Romero (D-Santa Fe) resigned from her job with a district attorney amid mounting criticism.

Ternus faces challenges that will force him to step outside his comfort zone in hardware engineering.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul pardons Purple Heart recipient Sae Joon Park, removing a key legal hurdle as the deported Army veteran seeks to return home.