California has no shortage of stunning national parks, from the crystal-blue waters of Channel Islands National Park to the ...

Amid brisk and breezy weather, Western New York farmers are busy with a singularly sugary harvest. Through late winter into ...

The name Folia refers both to the plural form of ‘leaf’ in Latin and to ‘folie’ in French, which means excess, ecstasy, ...

What’s Going On is a listing of activities taking place throughout the Downriver community. To submit an event, send an email to downriverlife@thenewsherald.com. List the time, date, location, cost ...

They're ancient and almost impossible to read but Selena Wisnom has deciphered enough Cuneiform to show just how similar life was for our ancient ancestors.

Bridges, blooms, and lakeside calm await at Chicago Botanic Garden. Explore 385 acres of color, art, and serenity in Glencoe, Illinois.

Having failed to act on climate change, the global powers are quietly preparing for an environmental “technofix” not to mitigate or adapt, but to re-engineer the planet itself — an approach that would ...

Many Filipinos are familiar only with the Banaue rice terraces – the agricultural fields sculpted into the mountainsides. However, there is much more ...

There’s a waterfall-fed swimming hole hiding in the forests near Stevenson, Washington that’s about to solve your “what should we do this weekend” dilemma for the entire summer. Naked Falls offers the ...

Samish Island has a secret: it’s not technically an island anymore. A road connects it to the mainland, making it easy to ...