A once thriving Saharan tourist city with a rich but fading heritage faces harsh realities two years since Niger’s coup.

Top choices for efficient city travel - Like a true nature’s child, the born to be mild Stuart Pritchard sets off on an electric adventure in a bid to find the five raddest e-rides of 2025 ...

A person in Arizona recently died of pneumonic plague—a rare and severe form of the disease. An expert explains how the bacteria that spurred the Black Death centuries ago continues to claim lives ...

July is peak black bear mating season. Watch two Asheville bears scuffle and learn what not to do if you encounter a bear in the wild.

Someone get these bears some boxing gloves! A video from July 4 captures two black bears fighting on the side of the road near Asheville, North Carolina. The clip was recorded from the safety of a ...

A video from July 4 captures two black bears fighting on the side of the road near Asheville, North Carolina. The clip was recorded from the safety of a nearby car.

An engineering firm has been selected for the Hilltop Road project in Black Mountain.

Christopher Wilton-Steer A version of this article appears in print on July 27, 2025, Page 22 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Up Close / ‘The Silk Road,’ by Christopher Wilton-Steer.

Yes, Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road dark web marketplace The site, which was shut down in 2013 alongside Ulbricht's arrest, was a notorious marketplace for illegal drugs, among ...

Black Death Plague That Killed Millions Became Less Fatal because of This Genetic Tweak Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but ...