By Steve Stricker Columnist “Helpless,” unable to defend or help oneself; weak and dependent; unable to control or manage a ...

The Okefenokee is huge, covering hundreds of miles, but it is shallow — only two feet deep in many places — and it isn’t fed by any waterways. Rain is the swamp’s only source of replenishment.

A nanny state is hostile to liberty. Any attempt to institute or continue it should be opposed, root and branch. Government intervention is never the solution; and always the problem.” – Lane Vance ...

The San Saba County Judge, Emergency Coordinator and Sheriff are speaking on the recent floods and response efforts. In a ...

So here we are at the outset of named-storm season: more displacement, more societal shunning and worse, all while ...

The devotion to the Carmelite scapular has brought down on the world a copious rain of spiritual and temporal graces.” ...

The Chance Harbour Fire, which destroyed many cabins in Puddin Cove and surrounding areas, continues to blaze out-of-control and as of Sunday morning, had spread to 1,660 hectares. It grew in size on ...

Indian police officials patrolling the slippery trails of Ramteertha Hills in Karnataka, find Russian woman who had made a ...

Chicoan Nancy Anderson’s children’s book is a parable about brokenness leading to new life. Beautifully illustrated by Madeline Einfalt, with design layout by Nica Petrova, “New Leaf” ($25 in ...

For many families, the most serious warnings about the deadly and raging torrent in Texas Hill Country on July 4 came too ...

What appears from the outside to be a safe and supportive community for military families is, according to several residents, ...

Vanilla farmers in Madagascar, a country that supplies up to 80 per cent of the global crop each year, face a difficult ...