Scott Hunter is retiring as fire chief in Bedford at the end of March. To the surprise of probably no one who knows him though, his idea of taking it ...

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The beautiful Blue Ridge Parkway travels 469 miles along the spine of the ancient Blue Ridge Mountains, from Rockfish Gap, ...

The 57-year-old from Piet Retief, Mpumalanga, was spending Saturday at the park with his family when he was trampled to death by a male elephant.

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A section of the Schilthornbahn cableway is the latest example of breathtaking engineering in the Swiss Alps. But how steep is it?

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This week’s Visiting Lake Placid column needs no introduction. Boasting 3,430 vertical feet — the largest of any ski area in ...