Start with an eight-footer. Wear a long-sleeve shirt.
Virgin Hyperloop One is testing a system that would put passengers in pods hurtling through vacuum tubes. Other companies are moving ahead with similar plans.
Biologists are searching caves and abandoned mines in the West, hoping to spare many species of the winged creatures from the devastating fungus, white-nose syndrome.
After hundreds of messages between the activist and a police lieutenant were made public, the mayor sought to “review the existence of bias” in the Portland Police Bureau.
In a region with relatively high resistance to vaccines, a jump in measles cases has sent steady crowds to immunization clinics.
It could have answered the concerns of citizens. Instead it bolted.
The results of a consumer genetic test identified the mother of the man whose donated sperm was used to conceive Danielle Teuscher’s daughter. Legal warnings soon followed.
Jack Lund, who has been on the job since 1949, drove his last mail run this month. When he first started hauling mail, he took over from the railroad.
Jack Lund, who has been on the job since 1949, drove his last mail run this month. When he first started hauling mail, he took over from the railroad.
As the World Cup arrives in Utah, Armin Auchentaller tries to spread the gospel of biathlon to the United States, which has never won an Olympic medal in the sport.
The chief executive said she had warned 12 camps and disinvited one from the annual event where attendees create music and art in the Nevada desert.
The runner said the attack by a young cat in North Colorado won’t keep him from returning to the trails. But in the future, he’ll do so with a friend.
The runner said the attack by a young cat in North Colorado won’t keep him from returning to the trails. But in the future, he’ll do so with a friend.
The A.C.L.U. sued Customs and Border Protection after an agent told two women last year he was asking for their IDs because they spoke Spanish.
Ms. Lovette, a City Ballet principal, will dance, choreograph and teach. Also at the festival: new works by Hope Boykin, Pam Tanowitz and more.
The violence and lack of accountability I experienced at such a sensitive location put us all at risk.
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I have arrived at a life phase in which my dad is crushing on a silver-haired grandmother, and I’m giddily becoming his girlfriend’s girlfriend.
The city’s Arts District offers theater without blue men or topless women, no poker tables, and the kind of indie food and bar scene not often seen on the Strip.
Low-income workers seem to want Amazon in New York more than elites do. Amazon should figure out how to give them what they really need.
Mr. Kelly, the former astronaut who is married to Gabrielle Giffords, is challenging Republican Senator Martha McSally, who was appointed to the seat that had been left vacant by John McCain’s death.
The northern part of the country has gotten walloped with snow, while parts of the Southeast are seeing heavy rain and strong winds.
The districtwide strike is seen as a referendum on a compensation system that teachers say has delivered erratic bonuses while their base salaries stagnate.
The Pacific Northwest’s usual seasonal storms are detouring through Canada first, delivering the snowiest February in 70 years to a city unaccustomed to getting more than an inch or two.
A rare confluence of winter storms slammed Seattle with as much snow in one day as it usually gets in an entire year.
Hacienda HealthCare said Thursday it would close the center. But then the state expressed concern about the “health and safety” of moving out its patients.
Areas of Seattle received four to six inches of snow during a winter storm that started on Friday. Heavy snow was also hitting parts of California.
An increasing number of people are taking up snow hiking: wintertime trekking using snowshoes or special boots. Here’s what you need to know.
Hacienda HealthCare said it was working to determine exactly how it would move its patients from the Phoenix facility elsewhere. State officials were dismayed.
The decision to delay seismic testing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska signals at least a temporary victory for groups that oppose oil exploration there.
These women want the right to compete in big-wave contests — and get paid as much as men do.
The Arizona governor has asked his attorney general to investigate Hacienda HealthCare, which runs the nursing home where the woman was a patient.
An 1880 brick house in Columbus, an A-frame mountain home near Boulder and a one-bedroom cottage on an island in Pine Plains.
An 1880 brick house in Columbus, an A-frame mountain home near Boulder and a one-bedroom cottage on an island in Pine Plains.
Measles, believed to be largely wiped out as a public health crisis two decades ago, is affecting dozens of children.
The plan to end transmission of the virus in the United States by 2030, outlined in the president’s State of the Union address, will focus on 48 counties where about half of new infections occur.
The man, who had been running along a trail in Colorado, sustained serious but nonlife-threatening injuries.
The man, who had been running along a trail in Colorado, sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Regulatory and market pressures are creating a tough operating environment for many vendors. Oversaturation and changing culinary tastes are also concerns.
The free app doesn’t just help the color-impaired pick out clothes or decode maps — it lets everyone else see through their eyes.
Here’s how lawmakers can accelerate the clean-energy economy.
Every January, thousands of agricultural families come together for a 16-day celebration of Western heritage.
A small group of well-educated professionals enjoys rising wages, while most workers toil in low-wage jobs with few chances to advance.
In Idaho and Utah, two conservative states, voters approved initiatives to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Now G.O.P. lawmakers are looking to curb those expansions.
Whitehead's Cutlery, in Butte, Mont., is 128 years old and will gladly sharpen scissors sold generations ago.
One common thread of J.D. Vance’s and Tara Westover’s memoirs is distrust of institutions. Yet it was institutions — the military in one case, college in the other — that saved them.
Under a bill approved in Albany, standardized tests could have almost no role in how teachers are evaluated — a sea change in New York’s approach.
Mr. Schultz, the former chief executive of Starbucks, was greeted by about 40 protesters at an event after saying he would consider running for president as an independent.
Their shop is the thinking person’s place to go after hitting the jackpot in Las Vegas (or New York).
In the face of a prolonged drought, the federal government could step in and reduce water use in the Southwest.
A teenager in Arizona discovered the flaw, which allows eavesdropping, on Jan. 19, and his mother contacted Apple the next day. But the company was slow to reply.
A Supreme Court ruling that expanded legal betting on sports has produced a gambling gold rush. Now bookmakers, media companies and tech entrepreneurs are rushing in to build out the industry.
You could get frostbite in as little as five minutes. It will be warmer in Antarctica than it is in Des Moines. It could feel like minus 65 in Minneapolis.
You could get frostbite in as little as five minutes. It will be warmer in Antarctica than it is in Des Moines. It could feel like minus 65 in Minneapolis.
Stephen Paddock most likely chose a music festival for his rampage, which killed 58 people, because of the image of harming people who were having fun, an F.B.I. report said.
Looking for an escape route from the polar vortex? Here are a half-dozen possibilities that are guaranteed to be warmer than minus-14 degrees.
One outcome of the Trump administration’s ever-tightening border policies is migrants crossing in ever-more-remote, and more dangerous, places.
The Trump administration’s hard-line stance on keeping migrants out is pushing asylum seekers to take remote and dangerous routes into the United States. And a wall might not be able to fix that.
Kevin O’Brien was fired in 2015 for sex harassment. Weeks later, he landed a job with Mayor de Blasio, eventually become acting chief of staff.
Filmmakers travel to Park City, Utah, to show and sell their latest creations. Critics spend their days jumping from movie to movie, hoping for discovery and delight.
A father-and-son hunting pair fatally shot a mother black bear and her newborn cubs in April. A camera used for wildlife research captured the whole thing.
The wall might have helped Republicans in places like Montana and North Dakota, but all nine House members whose districts touch the southern border oppose it.
The accusations underscored an entrenched culture of discrimination and retaliation that guards said flourished under two contractors at a highly classified Energy Department site in Nevada.
The United States is home to more than 300,000 immigrants from Venezuela, a number that has soared in recent years. Many are seeking asylum.
For a transcendant trip, head away from light pollution and crane your neck towards the stars.
The Phoenix Police Department said that DNA taken from Nathan Sutherland, 36, a nurse at Hacienda HealthCare, matched that of a boy who was born in December.
The Phoenix Police Department said that DNA taken from Nathan Sutherland, 36, a nurse at Hacienda HealthCare, matched that of a boy who was born in December.
Wilbur Martinez-Guzman is believed to be in the United States illegally, the authorities said. They say he is responsible for four homicides in nine days.
Alta, the famed Utah ski resort, has long been known for resisting alteration. Now, its first luxury lodge is set to open, and not everyone is happy.
Abortion rights are under threat from the Supreme Court. But states can take critical actions.