President-elect Donald Trump has tapped former New York congressman Lee Zeldin to run the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The nomination for EPA administrator will need confirmation from the ...

A Hartford, Connecticut, native has been nominated for a Grammy award in the Latin Jazz category. Zaccai Curtis's album "Cubop Lives" celebrates a style of Latin Jazz that combines Afro-Cuban music ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti's international airport shut down temporarily on Monday after gangs opened fire at a Spirit Airlines flight landing in Port-Au-Prince, the U.S. State Department and the ...

Dolphin strandings aren’t slowing down after a busy weekend for the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). On Saturday, an IFAW team saved 10 common dolphins from stranding on local beaches. In ...

Keith Hambrecht vividly recalls his first experience with the bane of American wetlands, a tall, dense reed called phragmites. "I didn't know what it was at the time," he says, remembering working on ...

A dozen and a half monkeys are still on the loose in South Carolina after a dramatic escape last week from a research facility. The 43 female rhesus macaques broke free from the Alpha Genesis Primate ...

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Stephen Miller as the White House deputy chief of staff for policy. The role puts Miller back at the White House where he is expected to take on a ...

A long-lost library book has been reunited with its owner. “The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley,” who was a British illustrator and author, was first added to the Worcester Public Library’s collection ...

The toy company Mattel is apologizing for a misprint on its doll packaging that sent unsuspecting Wicked fans to a pornographic website. The dolls depict some of the main characters from the ...

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to come to the White House with a laundry list of policies he wants to change or reverse. The Biden administration has moved to ease longtime restrictions on ...

Skygazers are in for a treat Monday night as the North Taurid meteor showers peak, offering viewers a chance to see some bright streaks across the night sky. The North and South Taurids are meteor ...

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont on Saturday declared a Stage 2 drought advisory for the entire state, following months of dry weather and elevated fire danger. “The lack of rain over the past two months ...