Rich in variety, townland names are markers of tradition and belonging, reflecting historical events or landscape features ...

Perhaps the most representative artifacts are Kongpo bixiu arrows drilled with holes, so they whistle as they whoosh through the air. Their 1,500-year legacy has endured and competitions remain ...

Largely due to groundwater pumping and shifting of land after the last ice age, major urban areas are subsiding, which could ...

Stroll through art galleries, see a home featured in a Hollywood film, kayak down the river, and admire the majesty of a ...

It all began with my fascination with politics since my grade school days. It was inevitable that this would lead me to the study of geopolitics, the study of the influence of factors as geography, ...

Dozens of cities are expected to meet or surpass record high temperatures for this time of year as part of a heat wave that ...

A Texas heat wave could produce record high temperatures this week. Austin has opened cooling centers to help residents stay ...

A reader asks why Onion Creek is so named. We looked in the American-Statesman archives and asked area experts.

The quake struck south of Greenback, about 30 miles south of Knoxville, just after 9 a.m., according to data from the United ...

Maps have been around since humans could communicate through drawings to describe the location of a specific place. Some of ...

Old spy satellites and new AI help unearth the hidden bombs of Southeast Asia.

The fight to remove “Lost Cause” memorials suffered some setbacks in part due to the Trump administration’s efforts to ...