Jessie Holmes, a former reality television star, who won the longest-ever Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, crossing the finish line on Friday in the northern town of Nome after a record 1,129-mile ...

Our writer takes us on a journey of a lifetime across the so-named “5-Stans,” with all the wonder and mystery these nations ...

The Chicago River is once again glowing kelly green as the city opens its annual St. Patrick's Day celebrations.

An oil spill in northwestern Ecuador has turned a river black, prompting authorities to declare an environmental emergency ...

Morgan Dart had a curved spine. A clumsy back brace for 10 months didn't help, but a seven-hour surgery did. Now, the Kearney High freshman is on the mend.

MOSCOW, March 15. /TASS/. Traveler Fyodor Konyukhov has already made it from South America to Australia in a rowing boat in a hundred days, which is about half of his journey, the expedition's ...

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Harry Humason glided his finger over a worn page in a world atlas. He paused when his fingernail brushed against a small, yellowed Post-it note with a handwritten message reading simply, “Frankfurt.” ...

Nothing beats the tranquility of floating along a scenic river, with breathtaking landscapes and charming towns passing by.

A river rafting trip to Hells Canyon, the deepest canyon in all of North America, brought this writer and his stepfather ...

The Kremlin is using vessels from its “ghost fleet” — hundreds of aging commercial ships with obscured ownership — to send ...

A posthumous collection of Joan Didion’s diaries, biographies of Yoko Ono and Mark Twain, a history of The Onion — and plenty ...