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The endangered Florida panther has bred only south of the Caloosahatchee River since 1973. Now, a female has turned up on the north side, and it could be a good thing for the future of the species.

Some Massachusetts opioid users are so desperate to quit the drug habit that they are asking judges to lock them up and require treatment. Critics question whether courts should play this role.

The GOP leadership elections are a show of unity heading into the new year where Republicans will control both the legislative and executive branches.

Washington overhauled the FAFSA to make it easier to complete, but it's still full of roadblocks for many teens.

The narrator of Zadie Smith's new novel is never named — fitting, for a book about the illusions of identity and the ways people try and fail to know and define themselves.

For six decades, a painting hung in a mostly darkened bedroom in Sunnyvale, Calif. It turns out to be a painting by Frida Kahlo, estimated to be worth up to $2 million. It will be sold at auction.

People in India are camped out in long lines at banks seeking to exchange high-denomination currency that the government has withdrawn from circulation.

Many who work with the nation's poor worry that poverty will be forgotten under a Trump administration and Republican-controlled Congress.

Kenya says it extended the deadline after a request from the U.N. The country says it is closing the camp because of security concerns, but rights groups worry about what it might mean for refugees.

State Auditor Nicole Galloway on Tuesday released details of a test her office recently conducted on how cities, counties, water districts, fire...