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This tiny town is an Old West time capsule on the New Mexico and Arizona border, with vast mountainous landscapes and a ...

Experts say Camp Mystic’s requests to amend the FEMA map could have been an attempt to avoid the requirement to carry flood ...

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A live map from Windy.com highlighted which parts of the United States were experiencing the most pronounced drought conditions as of Friday. Why It Matters. Drought can have seri ...

State Sen. Michael Testa (R-1) has introduced a 53-page bill to rename Delaware Bay as the Bay of New Jersey in “all statutes ...

Let’s focus on the charmingest bits of Stony Brook and the Setaukets that lie between Route 25A and the Long Island Sound.

Wikimedia Commons/Francine Schroeder photo for Smithsonian Institution The 1950 Smokey Bear Rescue On May 9, 1950, ...