Nearly 2,000 Baltimoreans voted to dethrone the Chanticleer pear, crowning a native giant that can live 300 years.

Asbury Park residents love the planned Clarke Creek trail but say a 60-car lot on Ferrelltown Parkway is too much for their doorstep.

Crews just paved a key stretch joining two Johnson County trails, but the connection is not open to hikers yet.

Governor Tony Evers and DNR Secretary Karen Hyun attended an August 31 event at Bad River as Wisconsin began its first Wild Rice Week, an observance tied to tribal treaty rights.

Rescuers pulled hatchlings from a pool and a storm drain as Florida's turtle season stretches into October.

Fields at Patsy T. Mink Central Oʻahu Regional Park are open again after crews cleared 3,000 tons of flood debris and passed health testing.

The rare plant once grown at Dolly Parton's California home is nearing the end of its life at UNC Charlotte's botanical gardens.

A bluegill angler near Lake Okeechobee caught the swim-off on video as the bear beat the gator to shore.

Brie and Andouille the capybaras now share a converted tapir exhibit with a giant anteater and screaming rheas.

Blossom laid 31 eggs, and four hatchlings from the former Port Aransas celebrity gator have already made it out of their shells.

A September 10 meeting at Newhall Park will let neighbors weigh in on splash pad and playground designs before fall's formal engineering phase.

Rocky River crews start demolition this week on a fall rebuild that will make Linden Park a national demonstration site.

Free watch parties in Chapel Hill and Durham let families watch thousands of swifts pour into a centuries-old tree or a bank chimney at sunset.