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FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — A picturesque Colorado river with a peculiar French name is the latest prize in the West's water wars, where wilderness adv...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Radioactive well-water contamination could threaten some 1,400 people in a rural farming community if federal regulators allow the na...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Finnish rock band Ancara and sign-language rapper Signmark performed in the foothills of Mount Everest over the weekend to rai...

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — Planning is underway to place a Liberty Bell replica atop Stone Mountain near Atlanta as a memorial to the Rev. Martin Luth...

PARIS (AP) — The sky was the limit for powerhouse Christian Dior which built an entire floral mountain within the Louvre to house its 15 minute show a...

PARIS (AP) — The Alps are the birthplace of downhill skiing and a crucible for mountain climbing — but now the French government is trying to help the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ahead of a historic trip to the Arctic, President Barack Obama erased a former Republican president's name from North America's tall...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Russell Begaye stared at the yellow water that keeps pouring out of a hole in the side of a Colorado mountain, racing down a ...

BONN, Germany (AP) — The United States has succeeded in its bid to "Remember the Alamo," after the U.N. cultural body approved its status as a world h...

HOT SPRINGS, S.D. (AP) — Perched atop a bluff in the remote Black Hills, a veterans hospital built of thick blocks of pink sandstone and topped with r...

Wildfires are charging through several dry Western states, including a blaze in California that showed new life after burning for a week and forced so...

Wildfires are sweeping through several dry Western states, including a massive blaze burning out of control in Northern California. A look at the late...

KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C. (AP) — Debbie Dills thought the black Hyundai next to her at a stoplight looked familiar — it had a South Carolina tag and a whit...