ALBERTVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – Winter haters rejoice! Sand Mountain Sam, Alabama’s beloved opossum, did not see his shadow at a ceremony in Albertville on Monday, meaning an early spring could be on tap.

New metal rails and loops have appeared bolted onto planter boxes around the trees lining Brazos Street in downtown Austin, sparking questions — and online speculation — about whether the additions ...

The first time Sumaira Abdulali tangoed with the sand mafia, it was 2004. She was 43 years old and enjoying time with her husband and two kids at the family’s holiday home on the western coast of ...

We explain why Subaru’s boxer engine layout is especially well-suited for off-roading, from stability to traction advantages. Subaru continues using boxer engines for low center of gravity and ...

In 1963, Illinois naturalist May Watts, inspired by walking paths she’d seen in Britain, wrote a letter to the editor of the Chicago Tribune, suggesting converting a stretch of abandoned railroad into ...

There I was, staring up at a quarter-mile-high fold of sand that looked like it was the backdrop of a science fiction novel. It looked like CGI but it was real, and so far out in the desert that even ...

The Burke-Gilman Trail is about 20 miles, but the road to becoming a Seattle transportation icon is vastly longer. “From Rails to Trails,” a new PBS documentary narrated by Edward Norton premiering ...

Mike Sorrentino is a Senior Editor for Mobile, covering phones, texting apps and smartwatches -- obsessing about how we can make the most of them. Mike also keeps an eye out on the movie and toy ...

More than 300 truckloads of sand from a quarry near Palm Springs are being delivered to a San Clemente beach this week as part of emergency efforts to protect the coastal tracks that are San Diego ...

An Amtrak Surfliner heads south. (File photo courtesy of SANDAG) Officials have marked a key milestone in the effort to protect a coastal rail line that stretches to downtown San Diego. The line ...