WRIGHTWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Powerful winter storms brought the wettest Christmas season to Southern California in years, sending mud and debris sliding and half-filling homes with mud. There was still ...

Gov. Jared Polis signed an executive order last week aimed at curbing a mountain pine beetle outbreak in ponderosa forests along the Front Range. Polis said the infestation is in the beginning stages ...

The Cuchara ski area is set to turn a chairlift for the first time in more than 25 years. The next step in a decades-long plan to revive the dormant Cuchara ski area arrived this month when the Colora...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks closed slightly lower on Friday in a quiet day of trading as investors returned from the Christmas holiday. The S&P 500 index fell 2.11 points, less than 0.1%, to close at 6,92...

JABO, Nigeria (AP) — Sanusi Madabo, a 40-year-old farmer in the Nigerian village of Jabo, was preparing for bed on Thursday night when he heard a loud noise that sounded like a plane crashing. He rush...

NEW YORK – One of this year’s most surprising music stories: While streams of new music from the past 18 months were down from last year, one genre is on the rise – Christian and gospel music, accordi...

VATICAN CITY – Pope Leo XIV, during his first Christmas Day message Thursday, urged the faithful to shed indifference toward those who have lost everything, such as residents of Gaza, those who are im...

Christmas came early for someone who purchased a Powerball ticket at a gas station outside Little Rock, Arkansas, worth more than $1.8 billion. The lone winner in Wednesday's Christmas Eve drawing...

JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian attacker rammed his car into a man and then stabbed a young woman in northern Israel on Friday afternoon, killing both, police said. The Israeli military swiftly launche...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The United States airstrikes that targeted Islamic State group militants in northwestern Nigeria on Thursday marked a major escalation in an offensive that the West African's ove...