Volunteers with the North Platte Elks Lodge recently completed their annual literacy outreach, distributing 467 brand-new personal dictionaries to third-grade students across 16 area schools.

Crews have finally replaced the last few panels of the Spaceship Earth exterior at EPCOT, completing a refresh project that began last year. The silver paneling runs around Project Tomorrow, the ...

Volusia County Schools is planning to install metal detectors in its middle schools. The safety measure was part of the recommendations presented to the Volusia County School Board on Tuesday, Oct. 13 ...

Scientists may have solved a 2.3-billion-year-old mystery about how Earth maintained enough oxygen to support life. Ancient rocks reveal that phosphorus recycling in the oceans created a ...

In the pursuit of space exploration, NASA has developed a number of innovations that today we depend on in our daily lives. Memory foam — the cushy, shock-absorbing material used in everything from ...

When a team wins a hard-fought football contest, all questionable decisions are summarily forgiven. Sure, there are fans who hold onto certain moments that weren't done in the manner they saw fit, but ...

Best Buy has announced it will be opening select stores at midnight for the launch of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The major US retailer is gearing up for the highly anticipated release, with ...

Control of the Senate is up for grabs. Democrats need to flip four seats — while holding all their current ones — to take the majority. Republicans must defend seats in what were once reliably red ...

Each week throughout the fall, we are going to ask, "Who is the Best of Battle Creek?" as we look at each position in volleyball among the city/area high school teams. Nominations for each position ...

Contra Costa County — Caltrans has updated its schedule for continued fiber-optic cable installation and other construction activities for the Middle Mile Broadband Project along Interstate 580, ...