An Ohio engineer’s decision to trade a conventional career for an unconventional hospitality business has turned a wooded property in Hocking Hills into a lucrative vacation rental destination. Bryant Gingerich, who founded Dunlap Hollow with his wife, Amy, transformed an old cottage, a contemporary A-frame and a natural cave into distinctive holiday homes. According to…

Homeland Security officials making an arrest in Kansas City. A federal judge has now ruled that Department of Homeland Security officials can’t knock on people’s doors to ask about their immigration status and whether they have voted in the recent elections, as the action likely violated the Voting Rights Act. The department posted photos and…

Imagine Texas and California pushed together into one patch of land. Now picture all of it cut down, burned or otherwise gone. That is roughly the amount of original primary forest the Amazon has lost, according to a new report from Amazon Conservation’s Monitoring of the Andes Amazon Program (MAAP). The latest analysis found that…

Olivia Wilde has sold her sprawling Studio City home in Los Angeles for $5.23 million, according to a report by Realtor.com. The sale closed in December 2025 for about $670,000 less than she paid when she purchased the property in 2023. The sale came amid speculation about her romance with British art dealer Caspar Jopling….

A retired farmer in North Dakota is preparing to turn 35 acres of erosion-prone farmland into grassland, a move expected to earn him $5,250 annually for five years while helping restore the soil and create wildlife habitat. Brian Roach, who lives near Wheatland, is participating in the state Governor’s Legacy Soil Health and Habitat Program,…

Coral larvae settled most near the speaker, with bacteria-coated structures showing stronger results than artificial surfaces alone. A reef may be built from concrete and carefully engineered structures, but for young marine life, it appears that the right soundtrack could matter too. In Hawaiʻi, scientists have been experimenting with an unusual approach to reef restoration,…