Usually, when I wake on a Monday morning in the Middle East, I fling open the balcony doors and let the sun flood before basking in the view of a championship golf course.

The legend on MIT’s campus goes that students once had to leap into the Charles River and swim across its dirty water without stopping to graduate. That was never true. But the institution does ...

A Westchester rescue dog is set to appear in this year's Puppy Bowl, animal lovers' favorite sporting event of the year. Luna, a 3 month-old labradoodle mix, has been drafted to Team Fluff to compete ...

Second graders on Staten Island are making a big splash learning to swim. Most weeks, a handful of second graders take a bus to the Joan and Alan Bernikow JCC of Staten Island with their teachers and ...

Stories from people who pursued new passions later in life. Share yours here Brendan MacNeill spent more than 40 years as a photographer, loving the art but hating the business side. Now he gets paid ...

Dec 27, 2025 Dec 27, 2025 Updated Dec 28, 2025 0 For 23 years, Keely and Cory Huberty have called Bald Eagle Lake (more specifically, White Bear Township) home — but it wasn’t until a neighbor’s puppy ...

While the American Kennel Club does not officially recognize them, Labradoodles and Goldendoodles have gained enormous popularity thanks to their intelligence, affectionate nature, and low-shedding ...

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She enjoys swimming through cities because it celebrates urban rivers that have recovered from a history of mistreatment. “We used to use them for disposal of chemicals, even human waste … but now we ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Dozens of qualified swimmers jumped into the Chicago River on Sunday morning. The Chicago River Swim marked the return of competitive open-water swimming in the river in nearly a ...