When the Colorado Rockies hired a new president of baseball operations, Paul DePodesta, he knew what he was walking into. He is taking over for an organization that has lost 100-plus games the last ...

With Santa’s deliveries done and presents unwrapped, families are likely preparing to take down their decorations and toss their real Christmas trees into the trash. While those who want to throw ...

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The hollowed-out trunk of the ancient yellow cedar felt like a cocoon with its soft floor of bark strips. A mother bear had molded this bed when she came each year to hibernate and to birth her cubs ...

Knowing when to take down your Christmas tree isn't cut and dry, so let tradition — or your personal preference — guide you Not only is there a debate regarding when to put up a Christmas tree, but ...

Back in 1964, a scientific decision ended up destroying one of the oldest living organisms ever discovered. Prometheus, a Great Basin bristlecone pine growing high on the slopes of Wheeler Peak in ...