CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA cleared its moon rocket on Thursday for an April launch with four astronauts after completing the latest round of repairs. The 322-foot rocket will roll out of the hangar and back to the pad next week at Florida's Kennedy Space Center, leading to a launch attempt ...

Picking up on last week’s part of my family’s trip to Alaska: Finally, we came into the city, that being Minneapolis. We pulled up to our hotel. It was pretty easy to picture in your brain. It had four or five floors. It was a Hampton Inn Suites. We unloaded the car and headed over to ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An asteroid that NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun, findings that could help divert a future incoming killer space rock, scientists reported Friday. It's the first time that a celestial body's orbit ...

FARGO, N.D. — The North Dakota Highway Patrol's newest recruit has floppy ears, four legs and an amazing knack for finding people. Beau, a 12-week-old puppy, is joining a band of bloodhounds who are in demand for difficult cases across the upper Midwest. They trail missing children, people ...

I have been to Alaska three times now, and I am going again. If you've ever gone on a big trip like this, you probably have been really excited. But it all starts with driving and driving. Then you are really bored. That is exactly how I felt when I went to Alaska. The reason is that we had ...

You can't meet a group of people without the conversation turning into a weather report. Are churches and schools closed? Where do we put the snow? Have you shoveled off your roof?  At this point, most of us can’t see any traffic going down our street because the snowbank has taken ...