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Many towns have regulations about when a homeowner can cut down their own trees. We examine these laws, and one lawsuit in particular, to learn more about what ownership means in a legal sense.

There's been a steep increase in how much Americans pay for health care, despite seeing worse health outcomes than most other developed nations.

Police evacuated homes Sunday near an air base in England used by the U.S. and arrested several men over suspected explosives offenses.

The National Assembly president put the latest toll at 188 dead, 1,520 injured and 157 reported missing. He said teams are racing to rescue hundreds of people still trapped in damaged buildings.

Q-Hall, the city’s first women’s sports bar, will open on Asheville's South Slope within the next few months.

A bombed-out building in Gaza sheltering around 100 people collapsed, and there are hundreds more like it that could, too

Over a month after the Ebola outbreak was declared in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and aid is beginning to arrive but too slowly, as officials warn of "brutal geographic expansion" of the virus.

Extreme weather often washes away personal belongings. Across the country, lost-and-found networks seek to reunite these objects with disaster survivors.

In our latest tour of breakfasts around the world, we're in Taiwan, where today's dish is Dan Bing, a beloved breakfast staple.

In a polarized era, marked in places by open hostility between politicians and the press, it’s worth recognizing candidates willing to put themselves out there, living up to their end of the campaign bargain. It’s far better than the alternative, which is a further descent into siloed and politicized media channels — and the frustrating half-truths of campaign ads.