When you think of the United States, images of sprawling cities and vast landscapes might come to mind, but not the hidden and ever-present geological threat: volcanoes. While you might associate ...

BELMAR, NJ –Eighty-one years ago today, on November 10, 1944, Belmar native Seaman First Class Frederick Lyman Abbott, U.S. Navy, lost his life in one of the most devastating naval accidents of World ...

The sacrifice by a U.S. Army helicopter pilot with ties to Rocky Mount during the Vietnam War is going to be remembered Tuesday morning as part of the yearly Veterans Day ceremony downtown. A new ...

See why this Alaskan national park offers the world’s top bear-watching experience. A brown bear searches for salmon along a creek in Alaska’s Katmai National Park. The park supports one of the ...

HANOI/KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 26 (Reuters) - The United States and Vietnam will finalise a trade agreement in the coming weeks that will maintain 20% tariffs on most Vietnamese goods but lift duties on ...

The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford, billed by the US Navy as “the most capable, adaptable, and lethal combat platform in the world,” is being sent to the Caribbean as the Trump administration ...

Oct. 1 (UPI) --Alaska's Katmai National Park announced a brown bear dubbed 32 Chunk has claimed his first-ever Fat Bear Week championship title. The park said the bounteous bear bested a field of ...

Ensign Kendall Hill, from Beaumont, Texas, speaks with sailors from the Japan Coast Guard during a tour aboard the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN-73), while ...

Fat Bear Week is an annual competition where fans vote for the fattest bear at Katmai National Park and Preserve. The event runs from Sept. 23 to Sept. 30, with daily voting on the explore.org website ...

Sept. 23 (UPI) --Katmai National Park in Alaska released the bracket for this year's Fat Bear Week, an annual competition to find the public's favorite big-bellied bruin. The park released the bracket ...

Each year, the burly bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve capture global attention in a March Madness-style bracket challenge as fans pick which bear advances in each round. “The bears have been ...

Fat Bear Week is back at Katmai National Park and Preserve. The March Madness-style bracket competition pits some of Katmai National Park and Preserve's bulkiest and most beloved brown bears against ...