Around 1.4 billion international holidays were taken annually by residents of planet Earth in recent years. Of those, about 750 million involved a European country. To put it another way, Europe ...

Disturbing increases in toxic lead exposure are linked to wider foraging by the critically endangered California condor and more wild pigs being shot throughout the state, masking positive effects of ...

Peninsula Open Space Trust is handing over 132 acres of oceanfront land at Pigeon Point to California State Parks, the ...

Myra Ellen Jenkins, New Mexico's first state historian and archivist, played a pivotal role in preserving the state's history ...

Georgia O'Keeffe called the New Mexico high desert "my country," but Pueblo peoples predated her. A more complex view is ...

In the 1850s, settlers from around the world poured into California to seek their fortunes during the Gold Rush. The Washoe people, who had lived around Lake Tahoe for thousands of years, were pushed ...

SANTA FE, N.M. – New Mexico’s land commissioner is urging an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s former Zorro Ranch after a troubling claim surfaced in the Epstein files. An anonymous email sent to ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Santa Barbara County, CA — January 2026 — White Buffalo Land Trust (WBLT) is pleased to announce photographer Julia Forrest as ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. For road-weary musicians, touring and tourism often are mutually exclusive, as homogenous hotel rooms and a ...

The city of Olathe could acquire and demolish several properties, including Erv’s Vaccums, Avis, and Toni’s Italian Restaurant, to make way for a major road improvement project at Interstate 35 and ...