We have returned again and again to the picturesque, historic towns along the Delaware River, which forms the state line of . We enjoy the area largely because there are no “big box” stores or typical malls to crowd out the historic features or to prevent local artisans from selling their unique creations. This is…

By Lisa M. Krieger From Bay Area News Group Buck Meadows—For 170 years, the gold deposits along Sierra stream beds have been so poked and prodded that easy supplies of the precious metal have grown scarce and are a challenge to find. This spring’s raging rivers are regifting them. “There it is!” said Kevin Bell…

Philadelphia 76ers head coach Doc Rivers was fired on Tuesday after a humiliating Game 7 loss to the Boston Celtics, as the team bounced out in the second round of the NBA playoffs for a third straight year. Rivers is one of the most successful coaches in the NBA and had amassed a record of…

SAVANNAH, Ga.—Larry “Gator” Rivers, who helped integrate high school basketball in Georgia before playing for the Harlem Globetrotters and becoming a county commissioner in his native Savannah, died Saturday at age 73. Rivers died from cancer, Chatham County Commission Chairman Chester Ellis told the Savannah Morning News. Campbell and Sons Funeral Home said Rivers died…

By Jack Dolan From Los Angeles Times Imagine racing down a steep river of recently melted snow toward a roaring rapid. You’re sitting on the outside edge of an inflatable raft with a paddle in your hands, so you can’t hold onto anything else. All that’s keeping you in the boat—and out of the freezing…

A playlist of 11 ecology music videos. The majority of songs are by the late singer-songwriter-poet Walkin’ Jim Stoltz who hiked over 28,000 miles through the wilderness. Songs about habitats, rivers, buffalo, pikas, bears, trees, prairie dogs, and bugs. …

Everyone wanted to be in Doc’s dory boat, but there were only four spots. For the uninitiated, dories are small, 17-foot-long rigid boats that can run a river much more quickly than an inflatable raft. We met Stephen “Doc” Nicholson, a retired dentist turned rafting guide, on an OARS trip through Dinosaur National Monument on the Yampa…

Commentary As I write this, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is committing cultural genocide in Tibet. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has demanded a “new modern socialist” Tibet, as well as the “sinicization” of the Tibetan people. To ensure mass compliance, the CCP has implemented a string of new policies in the supposedly autonomous region. In Tibet,…

SHANGHAI—China is bracing for a heavy flood season with 71 rivers already exceeding warning levels, the Chinese regime’s Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday. Rain in some parts of central and southern China has hit record highs in recent weeks even though overall precipitation is about 10 percent lower this year compared with last year,…