From dazzling light installations to unexpected conversations on pop-up phones, Perth festival has opened with a timely celebration of culture and community ...

Norway’s married mixed doubles curling team at the Winter Olympics are openly scowling and screaming at each other on the ice. They're exchanging stony glances and rejecting high-fives. Then, ...

Lawyers for conservation groups, Native American tribes, and the states of Oregon and Washington have returned to court to ...

A new investigation shows how chemicals used for decades to make carpets stain resistant have contaminated swaths of the South. As carpet executives in northwest Georgia grappled with the health ...

A 13-day trip around the region includes watching pilgrims immerse themselves in the ultra-holy Ganges River and a visit to ...

Tuesday: I am awake at 3am because of the persistent rattling of my letterbox. It is either a very determined nocturnal ...

Cabinet ministers have indicated that the Government will ‘rapidly’ put in place a National Flood Forecasting and Warning Service (NFFWS) in the wake of this week’s devastating floods, Extra.ie has ...

Just outside Fairbanks lies a natural paradise where Alaska’s wilderness puts on a show that would make professional photographers weep with joy – the Chena River State Recreation Area. This sprawling ...

As a wellbeing editor, Emilie Lavinia thought she had mindfulness sussed out, until she spent the weekend with some therapy ...

Seaweed bathing in Ireland, a trek through Africa’s first designated wilderness quiet park—we asked National Geographic staff and contributors for their favorite places to escape the stress and noise ...

Compiled by Bob Duke From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers 10 years ago — 2016 When the men and women of U.S. Coast Guard Sector Columbia River came to work Monday morning, they were told they ...