Since it landed on Mars in 2012 NASA's Curiosity rover has been exploring Gale Crater, a vast, dry ancient lake bed with a mountain at its center. Now, Curiosity has found sediments containing sulfate salt in the crater, which suggest it once held salty lakes.
A Texas man is charged with murder after the body of a 21-year-old University of Mississippi student was found near Oxford over the weekend.
In the New Zealand town of Taupo, residents aren't flushing their toilets.
A person was rescued Monday after falling into Oregon's Crater Lake -- a dormant volcano.
If the thunder of hooves and the thrill of the racing doesn't grab you, the sublime settings surely will.
She made her name as a slalom specialist but Mikaela Shiffrin won an historic super-G at Lake Louise Sunday to become the first skier to win races in all six World Cup disciplines.
Authorities are investigating the death of a St. Louis ballerina who was found dead in a rural Missouri lake, the state's highway patrol said.
Fifty Minnesota lakes and streams are on the state's impaired waters list because of too much chloride.
A wet spring season has experts predicting that summer water levels for the Great Lakes could be higher than normal and above last year's mark through early fall.
Officials expect nearly 500,000 people to head out onto Minnesota's lakes and streams for this weekend's opening of fishing season.
