A pair of astronauts stranded in space for more than nine months were finally headed home Tuesday after their capsule ...

A jury in North Dakota began deliberating Monday in a trial that has broad free speech implications, over a US oil pipeline ...

Join the Friends of the Library Wednesday, March 26, 11 a.m., in the library’s community room, when Mark Beck, president of ...

Governor Josh Stein announced the new North Carolina Task Force on Child Care and Early Education. The task force seeks to ...

Girls on the Run of the High Country presents the No Man’s Land Film Festival at the Appalachian Theatre of the High Country ...

The West Jefferson Lions Club, in cooperation with Lions Clubs from all over North Carolina, delivered art supplies to all three elementary schools. Each school received $500 ...

Japanese scientists want to figure out why some people look younger than their peers despite being the same age.

Countries must move rapidly to slash CO2 emissions from homes, offices, shops and other buildings -- a sector that accounts ...

A retrieval operation is underway after plastic pellets, likely spilled in a crash between a cargo ship and a tanker off the ...

Half of Americans feel “financially frozen,” according to new research. A survey examining the financial behavior and ...

As dusk fell, hundreds of Muslims at a mosque in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur feast on bowls of fragrant rice ...

Shota Imanaga is known as baseball's "Throwing Philosopher" and the Chicago Cubs pitcher plans to get inside Shohei Ohtani ...