With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquilizer dart at a polar bear. The predator bolted but soon slumped into the ...

What does this have to do with the Stratospheric Polar Vortex? The reasons behind high pressure systems continuously re-establishing themselves close to our shores this spring are complex ...

There is also a distinct vocabulary of polar English. It is so recently recognised, most of its words are not yet in the most comprehensive record of English, the Oxford English Dictionary.

They are wrapping up nine months of offering day care in Floodwood. And Polar Cubs Childcare Center is proud of what they’ve accomplished since opening in September. Located in the same building ...

The national average is 10% straight "A" hospitals per state. Louisiana ranked 17th in rates of straight "A" hospitals. Only hospitals who have earned an "A" rating for two consecutive years ...

The Louisiana governor is starkly warning those aiding and abetting the state’s escaped inmates that they will be facing jail time for their actions. A manhunt has been underway since early ...

Flames ripped through a massive mansion in Louisiana, destroying much of the historic structure that was used as a plantation house when it was completed in 1859, authorities said. The fire that ...

The dramatic pursuit formed part of a pioneering research mission in Norway's Svalbard archipelago, where scientists, for the first time, took fat tissue biopsies from polar bears to study the ...