There are an estimated 300,000 annual drowning deaths worldwide, according to WHO. That comes out to an average of 822 people per day. Here’s how to avoid becoming a statistic.

S TAND ON the rim of the grassy levees and you can see New Orleans’s dilemma: rising water on one side, a sinking city on the other. The people who call this place home have learned to live with water ...

Hurricane Erin churned slowly toward the eastern U.S. on Tuesday, stirring up treacherous waves. Here's the latest.

Kentucky is one of 17 states and the District of Columbia starting this school year with new restrictions, bringing the total to 35 states with laws or rules limiting phones and other electronic ...

National map battle: Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom responded with a strategy to redraw his state's map to convert ...

Weekly applications for jobless benefits are seen as a proxy for layoffs and have mostly settled in a historically healthy range between 200,000 and 250,000 since the U.S. began to emerge from the ...