Bally’s Corporation’s casino proposal for the Bronx cleared a major hurdle Monday, winning approval in a 5-1 vote by its Community Advisory Committee. The decision makes the Bally’s bid one of three ...

Still, I hadn’t gotten past my fear of him being bullied — and I couldn’t quite let go of my mission to toughen him up. And ...

Dozens of Holtsville zoo supporters have called on Brookhaven Town officials to reconsider plans to close the facility.

Fifteen young New England cottontail rabbits born at a New York City zoo have been released into the wild in Maine as part of an effort to save the only rabbit species native to New England from ...

NORMAL, Ill. — The North Dakota State charter airplane to Illinois State on Friday had one of those bumpy approaches to the Central Illinois Regional Airport. Bison quarterback Cole Payton couldn’t ...

An explosion at a Bronx apartment building blew off a massive chimney that ran up the side of the high-rise, leaving residents to wait for clearance to return to their apartments as officials ...

ST. LOUIS – The Saint Louis Zoo is welcoming a new resident. Charlie, a Komodo dragon, came to the zoo Sept. 20 from the Bronx Zoo in New York through the Komodo Dragon Species Survival Plan to ...

ST. LOUIS — The Saint Louis Zoo's new Komodo dragon habitat opens this month at the Charles H. Hoessle Herpetarium, and the habitat's first resident is 6-year-old Charlie. Charlie, who measures 6 feet ...

One of the great postseason baseball games of recent times didn’t end until Red Sox closer Aroldis Chapman — standing on the Yankee Stadium mound sweating like Chuck Berry in the Duck Room of the ...

The Fort Worth Zoo is celebrating the birth of the first female Asian elephant calf since 2013. The 36-inch-tall, 250-pound calf was born at 3:36 a.m. on Aug. 18, 2025, and the zoo kept it under wraps ...