A study by the University of Kansas concluded that making a good friend takes more than 200 hours —but losing one is much easier. One of the most vital ingredients in close friendship is consistency.

Maryland’s Rocky Gap State Park is a year-round destination.

Dozens of dogs and cats have arrived in Athens with their owners aboard a special evacuation flight for Greeks with pets who ...

One night, my sled dogs and I were gliding through a birch forest in Wisconsin when a black wolf emerged from the trees and ...

This is where my story begins. The trouble comes later. My yellow lab of 15 ½ years died so I took the hole in my heart to a volunteer training class at the local animal shelter where I could do some ...

Owls are nocturnal creatures that we rarely get to see up close, but there is one really good reason to attract them. This is ...

According to the Tohoku region’s Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, kokeshi (koh-keh-shee) originated in the late Edo ...

DENVER (KDVR) — An 11-year-old dog was reunited with his family this week after he went missing for 43 days in Colorado’s high country. The dog named Rocky was with a pet sitter near the town of ...

LAGO DI TESERO, ITALY — Before he became the most famous dog at the Olympics, Nazgul was not known as an escape artist. Still, his owners, Enrico and Alice Varesco, were not taking chances when they ...

ROSCOMMON, Mich. – Once nearly wiped out, wood ducks are now among Michigan’s most hunted waterfowl, a turnaround driven largely by generations of conservationists hanging nest boxes in wetlands and ...

MARQUETTE, MI— The grueling 228-mile trek across the Upper Peninsula winter wilderness is over, and race results are rolling in. Top teams competing in the The UP200 powered by NMU began arriving to ...