Michigan-based Mammoth Distilling has been on a mission to revive Rosen rye grown on South Manitou Island. That led them to a ...

An easy, scenic 15 minute drive from Wānaka and on the road to Makarora and the West Coast, is Lake Hāwea. A place of vivid beauty, mountainous extremes and legendary fishing spots. Lake Hāwea is an ...

A Manhattan prosecutor admitted Friday that it may be hard for jurors to convict former Marine Daniel Penny of “recklessly” choking mentally ill subway busker Jordan Neely to death on a ...

Photo by George Rose/Getty Images California has had a scorching summer this year, with heat wave after heat wave singeing ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Lake Tahoe. The Unusual cold storm will see higher elevations covered with snow. Image by mblach via Depositphotos High-elevation areas, particularly those north of Interstate 80, from Mammoth to ...

This story has been updated with new information. After a dramatic flurry of weekend court filings, the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee on Monday opted to delay hearing testimony from ...

An ephemeral lake in Algeria last month. Image: Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey Behold Sebkha el Melah, an ephemeral lake in Algeria, seen from space.

India captain Rohit Sharma opened up on star wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant's injury concern during the recently-concluded 1st Test against New Zealand in Bengaluru. Pant, who suffered a life ...

South Lake Tahoe and Convict Lake, near Mammoth, look promising this week. In Southern California, the leaves around Mt. Baldy and Big Bear Lake usually reach their peak between mid-October and ...

Lake Mary is the largest of the Mammoth Lakes, at more than a mile wide in one place, and we drove along it slowly for a leisurely time. Aside from the small marina visible in the photograph ...