A well-known and beloved Washington state teacher plummeted to his death just two miles into a planned solo backpack trek along the John Muir hiking trail last month, according to reports. Harris ...

LaSalle Canyon in Starved Rock State Park near Oglesby, Illinois, is the kind of place that makes you question whether you’re still in the Prairie State or if you’ve somehow teleported to some ...

An X-ray scan of a cargo container bound for Haiti from the Port of Miami uncovered a cache of undeclared firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition — ...

Polk County officials have released the name of the victim involved in a fatal incident at Big Bradley Falls over the weekend ...

Brian Astle, 42, was descending on a steep off-trail route on Montana's Mount Gould when he fell on Wednesday.

Rachel Able stood scanning Kohanaiki Beach, her stomach in knots as she looked out across the sparkling waves and rocky tide pools on the western shore of the Big Island.

At least 68 people are dead, including 28 children, after deadly flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas Hill Country.

More than 80 people were killed in the disastrous floods that roared through Central Texas on Friday. Dozens, including 10 young campers, were still unaccounted for.

Over a week after Juliana Marins was found dead following a fall from Mount Rinjani, an active volcano in Indonesia, coroners ...

Shelley Vandyke, 69, from Ada in southern Michigan, was struck by a falling "mature, uprooted" tree while she and her friends ...

An 82-year-old woman died while hiking the Stewart Falls trail in Utah County.The woman was hiking with a group around noon ...