At almost 10,000 feet above sea level, villagers in northern Ethiopia have uncovered a seam of pure black opal buried within hand-dug tunnels. The site, hidden in Wollo Province’s rugged terrain, is ...

A global shortage of construction-grade sand is reshaping coastlines, destabilizing ecosystems, and putting activists in the ...

The condition of Marshalltown’s fire hydrants came into the spotlight last week after a press release from the Marshalltown ...

New Horizons is filled with a lot of activities that you can do only once a day, from shaking stuff out of trees, to the Money Rock, and ...

The Smiths said the work was abandoned by a contractor, leaving them with toilets they couldn’t flush for nearly three years.

Mitchel Angelos, who turned 100 Jan. 14, lived an adventure that included growing up in abject poverty, serving during WW II ...

A Dickinson Township business is trying to raise nearly $25,000 for a new well after state officials deemed the hand-dug structure that has supplied the property’s water for more than a century ...

A fossil of Manipulonyx reshetovi, found in a Mongolian desert, shows how the dinosaur used its specialized claw to snatch ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...