For travelers hoping to unplug on their next beach vacation, a new report suggests the best escape may be the one with weaker cell service and less development along the shore.
In 1912, Japan sent Washington D.C. 3,000 cherry trees as a gift. Two years ago, it sent 250 more, one for every year of the American experiment. Those trees are in the ground now as part of a long-overdue Tidal Basin renovation that also brought wider walkways and a repaired seawall. They will bloom for the first time this month.
White geese migration in Freezout Lake, Montana during March 2025 - Photo credit: Montana Department of Commerce
Montana in March may mark the tail end of ski season, but it also brings one of North America's most extraordinary wildlife spectacles.
The Olympic Winter Games come to Salt Lake City in 2034. But when the Olympic torch returns to Utah, it won’t light a blank slate. It will reignite a region that never let the flame die out.