Well, not a river exactly. But 30 years ago, the valley surrounding the city of Bagram was lush from east to west, Afghans say. Today, you can stand at the NATO airbase adjacent to Bagram, look west and see green fields, look east a...

Queens resident Jennifer Daddio was promised "enchanting river views" and the "best of everything" when she forked over a considerable deposit for her Summer wedding. But just 12 days after the payment was made, Hudson Valley...

The East Valley Tribune tells the story of the Kent Decree, issued by Judge Edward H. Kent of the District Court of the Territory of Arizona, on March 1, 1910.    Reporter Ed Taylor makes the case that this decision resolved numerou...

Stop reading this blog post and hurry over the Memorial Union on the beautiful campus of the University of North Dakota to check out the Red River Valley History Conference today. Go here for the program and don't miss Robin...

Last weekend, the monstrous snowstorm that walloped the northeast prevented me from attending an event that I’d been looking forward to for months – a conference in Louisville focused on science journalism in the Ohio River Valley. ...

There's something extremely exciting about this documentary. A group of activists in 2008 went out to Los Angeles River and kayaked it from the Valley to the Ocean--that's about 51 miles--challenging the government's contention th...

The work originally was anticipated to be completed by Memorial Day, but the agency recently rejected construction bids it received for the project, according to a news release..More at Lehigh Valley Livehttp://www.lehighvalleylive....

via Doctoral Bliss This Friday, March 5, the Beta-Upsilon Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta will host its 5th Annual Red River Valley History Conference at the Memorial Union on the UND campus. Several student will present papers on a vari...

L.A. has sold the idea of enriching the residents of the Owens river valley before, while ripping them off in the dark. Will the residents buy into it?

U.S. and British forces are in the process of taking control of the town of Marja in Helmand province. Marja is a key Taliban stronghold and, indeed, is considered its last bastion in the Helmand River Valley, a strategic region of...

In the lower Medway valley, on both sides of the river, are a number of large sarsen stones which are collectively known as The Medway Megaliths. They were moved there between 2500-1700 BC and were part of Neolithic, chambered long ...

September 2009 marks 400 years since Henry Hudson sailed into New York Harbor and up the Hudson River, almost to what is now Albany, performing detailed reconnaissance of the Hudson Valley region. Other explorers passed by the outwa...

A campaign to add 400,000 acres of wilderness areas in Colorado could threaten future operations that bring water into the Arkansas Valley. It's not easy...

TAMPA, Fla. — This is the story of an almost impossible friendship. There's the tormented son of a murderer. And there's the obsessed investigator who...

The endless sea of shoulder-high prairie grass that greeted settlers of Manitoba’s Red River valley centuries ago is near extinction and disappearing at an alarming rate, a new study has found. Less than one per cent of Canada’s ori...

Settled in the 1830s along the banks of the Colorado River and named for the Father of Texas Stephen F. Austin, the city of Austin is known for its thriving music scene and as the home of the University of Texas (UT) Longhorns. But ...

Story by Sgt. Stephen Decatur KANDAHAR, Afghanistan- Afghan and coalition forces conducted a major clearing operation Jan. 10 in the Arghandab river valley near Kandahar, Afghanistan. The objective of Operation Fazilat was to attack...

The New River is legendary in bluegrass and old time music, primarily through the song New River Train. The river actually flows quite near where I live, and I cross over it regularly traveling south on I-81 from Roanoke – headed th...

My series on this week's CJP mission to Israel continues with an aerial view of the Jordan River Valley, starting in Jerusalem and ending up near the Lebanon border. We took helicopters and had a chance to see things close up.As we...

Beautiful river valley in Japan ("Glimpses")Last week we introduced you to my Buddy Zac's Blog from Japan "Gaijin Explorer". Zac is teaching English in Japan and his recent posts describe the struggle to teach effectivly and, of all...