More beachgoers have been getting an unexpected shock this summer as jellyfish numbers bloom along the Delaware coast. Many beach patrol captains say they’re seeing the most jellyfish activity ...

Democratic leaders in some states are considering changes to congressional maps in response to an effort in Texas, but such ...

Health officials on Martha’s Vineyard are investigating an apparent case of Powassan virus, a rare but potentially serious tick-borne illness. If confirmed, the case would be just the second on the ...

On Monday, May 30, 1943, in the midst of World War II, the small town of Ashland (population 2,457 according to the 1940 Census), on the western frontier of Aroostook County, Maine’s potato and ...

I was told I would feel as though the house was at “the ends of the Earth.” The crunch of the dirt drive under the tires led us up to a unique home with a special occupant.

The prison telecommunications industry, dominated by private-equity-backed companies, is ripe for improvement — and ...

Here are the two most asked questions at the Hampton Beach Oceanarium: where exactly is the Gulf of Maine, and are stingrays ...

At least three people have been injured and hundreds of homes and businesses are at risk in California as a massive wildfire ...

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will begin trying to remove Democratic lawmakers from office Monday if they don’t ...

Air quality alerts were issued across Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, Delaware, Texas and Colorado on Monday.

SOUTH PARIS — A thick stream of ice-cold water gushes from a pipe jutting out of a grassy embankment at a dip in the road to ...

An earthquake in Bergen County shook parts of New Jersey and New York on Saturday night, the second time in less than two weeks that an earthquake struck in the Garden State. The quake registering 3.0 ...